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's technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker's well-being. Second, we examine equivalent instrumental …
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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities …
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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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leadership styles depend on the environment: Employees of more transactional managers outperform those of more transformational …The positive role of transformational leadership for productivity and mental wellbeing has long been established …. Transformational leadership behavior may be particularly suited to navigate times of crisis which are characterized by high levels of …
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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …
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. Selecting managers on skills rather than demographics or preferences for leadership could substantially increase organizational …This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method … requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is …
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leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
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We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
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human cooperation. Three implications for leadership are derived, which are summarized under the notion CC strategy. Firstly … interdisciplinary exchange of both methods and ideas in leadership research. …
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