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work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven …. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …
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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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In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their … difficulty in measuring and rewarding leadership input. These challenges might lead to underprovision of leadership activities …
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In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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the leadership roles of deputy and assistant heads and classroom-based teachers with additional leadership … typically employ more staff in leadership roles than community schools. Increases in the number of staff in leadership roles … distributing leadership within schools may only be realised when leaders have sufficient autonomy. …
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selfishness are more likely to exercise an autocratic leadership style by ignoring preferences of the other team members. Yet … assigned leaders to use a democratic leadership style by reaching team consensus. Male leaders and leaders influenced by group …We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders …
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of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We then replicate this finding in a new … context and with a larger sample. To investigate the relationship between formal leadership and women's influence and …
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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male coaches show a lower level of risk-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped...
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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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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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