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Performance feedback and job search behavior : empirical evidence from linked employer-employee data
Pohlan, Laura; Steffes, Susanne - 2022
In this paper, we study whether performance feedback can serve as an instrument for firms to increase employee … retention. Feedback on the relative performance may affect individual job search behavior differently depending on workers … performance feedback system at the establishment level. We find no effect for employees performing above the median. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411291
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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2023
' leadership styles on employees' performance, work style, and mental well-being in times of crisis. Using longitudinal … performance and mental well-being during the pandemic. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495739
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Delegation and recruitment in organizations: The slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551584
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Effects of subsidizing the firstemployee - Empirical evidence from Finland
Nivala, Annika - 2019
This paper studies the effects of a first employee wage subsidy imple-mented in parts of Finland in 2007â 2011 using the universe of Finnishfirms. The subsidy, amounting to 30% of the wage costs of the firstemployee in the first year and 15% in the second, was targeted to en-trepreneurs without...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503082
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Delegation, promotion, and manager selection
Häusinger, Benjamin - 2019
managerial decision rights and performance-based promotions leads to a situation often referred to as the Peter principle … performance-based promotions and restricting managerial decision rights. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138859
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Committee deliberation and gender differences in influences
Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2023
This paper provides empirical evidence on the aggregation of information in committees. We analyze unique data from the decision-making process of hiring committees within a large private company. In the hiring process, committee members first conduct independent one-to-one interviews and give...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480222
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Reputational concerns and advice-seeking at work
Heursen, Lea; Friess, Svenja; Chugunova, Marina - 2023
We examine the impact of reputational concerns on seeking advice. While seeking can improve performance, it may affect … how individuals navigate this tradeoff and if others' beliefs about competence change it. We manipulate visibility of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495025
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Inefficient labor market sorting
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2023
A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495140
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Delegation and recruitment in organizations : the slippery slope to "bad" leadership
Çakır, Selcen; Matakos, Konstantinos; Tukiainen, Janne - 2022
We construct a dynamic model of two-sided sorting in labor markets with multi-dimensional agent and firm heterogeneity. We apply it to study optimal party structure and the decision of how (de)centralized candidate recruitment should be. Parties are non-unitary actors and compete at the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229853
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Interview sequences and the formation of subjective assessments
Radbruch, Jonas; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2024
Interviewing is a decisive stage of most processes that match candidates to firms and organizations. This paper studies how and why a candidate's interview outcome depends on the other candidates interviewed by the same evaluator. We use large-scale data from high-stakes admission and hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503067