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 …

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 …

, little is known about the effect of leadership in group contests. We conduct a group contest experiment, comparing two types … of leadership - leading-by-example and transactional leadership - and investigating the effect of communication between … there is leading-by-example but not when there is transactional leadership. Overall, leaders do not mitigate the over …

and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production … observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …

In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not … composition of the team also matters, as publicizing certain attributes of a subject's teammates has an impact on her decision to … lead. Lastly, though voluntary leaders improve efficiency in their team, they are not necessarily more influential than …

people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …