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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 complexity and uncertainty. We exploit...
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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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people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …
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. Students were randomly matched in teams of three and in each team we randomly chose a leader with the task of coordinating the … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …
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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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We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders … 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 …
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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 …, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … manufacturing firm, introducing a relative subjective performance evaluation of team leaders' leadership activities by their …
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influence to women and are less likely to choose women to represent the team externally. We then replicate this finding in a new … authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially …
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We investigate how bonus payments affect satisfaction and performance of managers in a large, multinational company. We find that falling behind a naturally occurring reference point for bonus comparisons reduces satisfaction and subsequent performance. The effects tend to be mitigated if...
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