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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 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...
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Helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace
Haylock, Michael Robert; Kampkötter, Patrick; Kosfeld, … - 2023
We offer a comprehensive analysis of the organizational and behavioral foundations of employees' helping and antisocial behavior as an integral part of a firm's workplace culture and working climate. Using representative employer-employee panel data of larger German private-sector firms, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279957
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Why do leaders matter? : the role of expert knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H. (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...
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Publication, compensation, and the public affairs discount : does gender play a role?
Taylor, Lori Lee; Cortes, Kalena E.; Hearn, Travis C. - 2019
This paper presents on three new styled facts: first, schools of public affairs hire many economists; second, those economists are disproportionately female; and third, salaries in schools of public affairs are, on average, lower than salaries in mainline departments of economics. We seek to...
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Returns to skills and personnel management : U.S. DoD scientists and engineers
Gibbs, Michael (contributor) - 2005
government's primary plan and two intended to introduce greater flexibility in personnel management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002694231
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Labor-market conditions and leadership styles
Dur, Robert A. J.; Kvaløy, Ola; Schöttner, Anja - 2020
Why do some leaders use praise as a means to motivate workers, while other leaders use social punishment? This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles depend on the prevailing labor-market conditions for workers. We show that the existence of a binding wage floor...
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Management of knowledge workers
Hvide, Hans K.; Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge …
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Worker matching and firm value
Moen, Espen R.; Yashiv, Eran - 2012
This paper studies the value of firms and their hiring and firing decisions in an environment where the productivity of the workers depends on how well they match with their co-workers and the firm acts as a coordinating device. Match quality derives from a production technology whereby workers...
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Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human resource management systems : evidence from new Japanese data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Ōwan, Hideo (contributor) - 2007
in firms with joint labor-management committees. We also confirm implications from our theory that firms in more … coordination within the organization and the structure of organization and bundling of HRMPs (Human Resource Management Practices … complementarity involving task coordination modes, HRMPs, training and hiring, and management strategies, and illustrates how such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561667
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Performance pay and applicant screening
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2017
Using German establishment data, we show that the relationship between intensity of performance pay and intensity of applicant screening depends on the nature of production. In establishments with increased multitasking, performance pay is positively associated with applicant screening. By...
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