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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959682
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Management Economics in a Large Retail Organization
Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness …", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703534
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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822140
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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While there is clear evidence that training is positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822754
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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize
Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167199
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959547
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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration
Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers’ tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762052
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030891
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Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959829
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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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