We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

decline of ¿bureaucratic¿ models of employee management and the riseof performance pay and performance management conflicts … regard unions as effectivevehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …

measure of the CEO's management style, including the attention devoted to specific subordinates and functions, the time … helpful in interpreting how span of control determines management style. …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management … worse managed than those in several other developed countries. We also find substantial variation in management practices … product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor …

tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices …. To establish this, I report on new research seeking to quantify management. I relate this to theoretical perspectives on … the economics of competition and management, arguing that management should be seen at least in part as a transferable …

market. We show that senior management appear to have pay that is strongly associated with various measures of firm …

Are poor management practices holding back middle-income countries? The authors look at evidence for private firms and …