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's technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker's well-being. Second, we examine equivalent instrumental …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of leaders in addressing coordination failure in societies with ethnic or religious diversity. We experimentally vary leader identity in a coordination game and implement it in the field across 44 towns in India. We find that religious minority leaders...
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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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American business seems to be infatuated with its workers' "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
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leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
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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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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. …
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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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This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …
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