Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence … regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an … management practices: (i) performance monitoring; (ii) performance feedback; (iii) target setting; and (iv) pro-social incentives …

example, an increase of trust in management that is about one tenth of the scale is equivalent to more than 30% increase in …

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …

firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile … management, suggesting this performance-pay relationship arises from more aggressive monitoring and incentive practices for top …