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Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...

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How common are bad bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

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Management-employee relations, firm size and job satisfaction

Tansel, Aysıt; Gazioğlu, Şaziye - 2013

This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....

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Trust the police? : self-selection of motivated agents into the German police force

Friebel, Guido; Kosfeld, Michael; Thielmann, Gerd - 2016

We conduct experimental games with police applicants in Germany to investigate whether intrinsically motivated agents … intrinsic motivation in the police context. We find that police applicants are more trustworthy than non-applicants, i.e., they … police force, documenting an important mechanism by which the match between jobs and agents in public service can be improved. …

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Job satisfaction and employee turnover : a firm-level perspective

Frederiksen, Anders - 2015

In this paper, I study an employment situation where the employer and the employees cooperate about the implementation of a job satisfaction survey. Cooperation is valuable because it improves the firm's ability to predict employee quits, but it is only an equilibrium outcome because the...

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Social comparisons of wage increases and job satisfaction

Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2016

We combine status quo and social comparison considerations and investigate whether relative wage increases in the sense of differences between individual wage increases and wage increases of comparable employees are related to managers' job satisfaction. Using a panel data set of managers in the...

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Happiness and work

Krause, Annabelle - 2014

The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...

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Do changes in regulation affect temporary agency workers' job satisfaction?

Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - 2015

regulations covering the temporary help service sector in Germany. We isolate the causal effect of this reform by combining a …

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Working time mismatch and job satisfaction - the role of employees' time autonomy and gender

Grund, Christian; Tilkes, Katja Rebecca - 2021

Evidence shows that working time mismatch, i.e. the difference between actual and desired working hours, is negatively related to employees' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examine the potential moderating effect of working time autonomy on this...

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Temporary contracts and young workers' job satisfaction in Italy

Bruno, Giovanni; Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Dessy, Orietta - 2013

The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only temporary employment relationships but also autonomous collaborations used by firms as low-cost de...

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