Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature …'s Business Structure Database (BSD), with data on management practices collected in face-to-face interviews from the HR Managers …-the-job training is the only management practice that is robustly and significantly associated with higher employment growth, increased …

equality in the workplace of human resources management (HRM) practices. Specifically we consider a number of work-life balance … inequality in management). Turning to PRP, the fixed effect estimates suggest that a switch from the traditional wage system that … efficacy of specific WLB practices and the adverse effect of PRP as well as the mediating role played by management by …

dealing with health and safety is linked to lower risks than direct consultation between management and employees over health …