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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 …
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Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …
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We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …
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Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace … related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a … are not aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or …
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Although workplace design and management are gaining more and more attention from modern organizations, workplace … related to workplaces, facility management (FM), and corporate real estate management (CREM) disciplines, but few open up a … aware of all the angles from which workplace management and effects of workplace design on employees has been or could be …
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advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing establishments with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …
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