A significant portion of the workforce experiences what we term 'unfriendly leadership,' encompassing various forms of hostile behavior exhibited by managers. The motivations driving managers to adopt such behaviors are insufficiently understood. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted a...

We study, experimentally, how two alternative incentive mechanisms affect team performance, and how a team chooses between alternative mechanisms. We study a group incentive mechanism, where team output is shared equally among team members, and a hierarchical mechanism team output is allocated...

We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managersplay in motivating employees through their attitude towards employees. We modela manager's attitude as her perception about employees' abilities of successfullycompleting challenging tasks. We show that a positive attitude...

The purpose of this paper will attempt to share some aspects of the topic of managerial motivation as it relates to the modern workforce and some of the barriers that have been re-evaluated and overcome in restructuring some theologies of hierarchy interrelations between leader and follower....

Research questions: How well do leaders know what intrinsically motivates their followers? Do they understand the mechanism of intrinsic motivation? Methods: Research questions are investigated by means of primary research in the form of qualitative interviews at a German large-sized company. To...