When New Professors Are Hired, Their Job Performance Is Monitored

question 149

Multiple Choice

When new professors are hired, their job performance is monitored closely. If they meet their institution's standards, they will eventually receive tenure. After receiving tenure, professors' job performance is less closely monitored, and they become difficult to fire. Tenure thus creates

• A)adverse selection.
• B)a Condorcet paradox.
• C)a screening problem.
• D)a moral hazard problem.

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Definitions:

Credit

An accounting entry that increases liabilities or equity or decreases assets, or an arrangement to receive cash, goods, or services now and pay for them in the future.

Credit Sales

Transactions where goods or services are sold to a customer with an agreement to pay at a later date.

Cash Collection

The process of receiving and processing payments from customers.

Revenue Recognition

The accounting principle that determines the specific conditions under which income becomes realized as revenue, often at the time of sale or service delivery.