Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … to hone in on managers' personal roles in determining store performance. We find: (i) managers affect and explain a large … share of the variance of store-level productivity; (ii) negative assortative matching between managers and stores, which may …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

Firms and other organizations establish the criteria under which employees will be judged and the performance measures … influence behavior and organization outcomes. Any divergence of the chosen performance metric from an ideal measurement of … productivity may lead to suboptimal outcomes, particularly in the public sector where outside interest groups may rely more heavily …

Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over … 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an … optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is defined simply as a signal in most papers) receives a large attention …

on the correct estimation of the tenure-productivity curve for new hires, accounting for the selection effects of the …

information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project …-level and individual-level performance using: (1) detailed accounting data on revenues, compensation, project completion rates … that (a) IT use is positively correlated with non-linear drivers of productivity; (b) the structure and size of workers …

its hiring costs and the characteristics and performance of its employees. These measures include the previous experience … and current tenure of its employees; subjective productivity scores for these employees; job vacancy rates; perceived ease …. The results show generally positive effects of firm wages on employee experience and tenure as well as on subjective …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …