Word: affective
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Such cuts may help the short-term bottom line but can haunt companies down the road. "Stopping those payments can be a violation of an implicit contract, and that can affect people's sense of loyalty," says Stacey Kole, an expert on human-resources management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. "It's a natural trigger for people to look outside for alternative jobs." And employees remember such slights. "If you cheat me today," Kole says, "I'll remember that when I have options to go elsewhere...
Benefit cuts can also affect productivity, says Christine Porath, an expert on organizational behavior at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business. "Performance declines, people are not as creative or innovative, and if they don't have a say in the decisions, they don't feel a sense of procedural justice...
...there was a higher probability that hedgies would make the same bad bets, potentially causing a devastating cascade of failures. With so many fund managers following the herd, in other words, there was a greater chance that they would go over a cliff together. "A bank run doesn't affect just one bank," says Andrew Lo, a finance professor at MIT who applies ideas from psychology and evolutionary biology to investment. "It can easily spread to the entire banking industry. What we're seeing now [in hedge funds] is a bank run, but a bank run gone wild...
...change] doesn’t affect the good shooters,” Kenyi says...
...change will likely affect who takes and makes three-point shots and at what percentages, the effectiveness of post players, and could possibly lead to an increase in mid-range jump shot attempts...