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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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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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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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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 …
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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. …
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We …
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Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...
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