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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis
Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2024
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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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396743
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Boss competence and worker well-being
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417963
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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination
Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607378
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The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: the CC strategy
Kosfeld, Michael - 2019
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062918
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How common are bad bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913230
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Female workers, male managers : gender, leadership, and risk-taking
Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2019
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130097
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?
Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101976
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Substitution between managers and subordinates : evidence from British football
Bridgewater, Sue; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Goodall, Amanda H. - 2009
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …
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