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  2. Rick Wagoner - Wikipedia

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    George Richard "Rick" Wagoner Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is an American businessman and former chair and chief executive officer of General Motors. Wagoner resigned as chairman and CEO at General Motors on March 29, 2009, at the request of the White House .

  3. Compensation (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, or feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area. Compensation can cover up either real or imagined deficiencies and personal or ...

  4. Rick Wagoner's golden retirement

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    As General Motors (GM) former CEO Rick Wagoner says his farewells at the company where he has worked for over thirty years, he is not receiving the sort of "golden parachute" severance package ...

  5. Compensation and benefits - Wikipedia

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    Compensation and benefits refer to remuneration to employees from employers. Which is the payments or rewards provided to an individual for the work that has been completed. Compensation is the direct monetary payment received for work performed, commonly known as wages. This is the compensation that employees earn for their work or ...

  6. Compensation - Wikipedia

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    Financial compensation; Compensation (chess), various advantages a player has in exchange for a disadvantage; Compensation, by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Compensation, a 1999 film; Compensation (psychology) Biological compensation, the characteristic pattern of bending of the plant or mushroom stem after turning from the normal vertical position

  7. Risk compensation - Wikipedia

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    Risk compensation is related to the broader term behavioral adaptation which includes all behavior changes in response to safety measures, whether compensatory or not. . However, since researchers are primarily interested in the compensatory or negative adaptive behavior the terms are sometimes used interchang

  8. Financial compensation - Wikipedia

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    Financial compensation refers to the act of providing a person with money or other things of economic value in exchange for their goods, labor, or to provide for the costs of injuries that they have incurred. The aim of financial compensation is the preservation of relationships between those engaged in economic exchange.

  9. Social compensation - Wikipedia

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    The social compensation hypothesis has been applied to research in online dating. [4] In a study by Poley and Luo, the social compensation hypothesis, stating that people high in dating or social anxiety and low in social competence, tend to use online dating to compensate for social deficits, was not supported. Participants high in dating or ...