We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace … workers managed. We find that when managers are paid fixed wages, they favor workers to whom they are socially connected …

-physician managers. The paper finds a strong positive association between the ranked quality of a hospital and whether the CEO is a … managers, but it is consistent with such claims and suggests that this area is now an important one for systematic future … research. -- organizational performance ; expert leaders ; hospitals ; physicians ; professional managers …