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Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

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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How common are bad bosses?

Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018

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

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Employee performance and mental well-being : the mitigating effects of transformational leadership during crisis

Czura, Kristina; Englmaier, Florian; Ho, Hoa; Spantig, Lisa - 2024

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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Task difficulty, performance measure characteristics, and the trade-off between insurance and well-allocated effort

Schnedler, Wendelin (contributor) - 2006

When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a "good" allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness (sensitivity, precision, signal-noise ratio) of the performance measure and its similarity (congruity,...

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The determinants of performance appraisal systems : a note (do Brown and Heywood's results for Australia hold up for Britain?)

Addison, John T. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between our two datasets - the AWIRS and the WERS - we reach one central point of agreement and one...

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First-place loving and last-place loathing : how rank in the distribution of performance affects effort provision

Gill, David; Kissová, Zdenka; Lee, Jaesun; Prowse, … - 2015

Rank-order relative-performance evaluation, in which pay, promotion and symbolic awards depend on the rank of workers in the distribution of performance, is ubiquitous. Whenever firms use rank-order relative-performance evaluation, workers receive feedback about their rank. Using a real-effort...

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Competitive strategy, performance appraisal and firm results

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2016

In this study, we address the relationship between performance appraisal and competitive strategy, as well as the impact of this relationship on firm performance. The results indicate that the adoption of developmental performance appraisal and the use of administrative performance appraisal are...

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Locus of control and performance appraisal

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Chadi, Cornelia - 2016

This work contributes to the literature demonstrating an important role for psychological traits in labor market decisions. We show that West German workers with an internal locus of control sort into jobs with performance appraisals. Appraisals provide workers who believe they control their...

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Works councils and performance appraisals

Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk; Titz, Krystina - 2019

Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...

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Self-confidence and reactions to subjective performance evaluations

Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander - 2019

Subjective performance evaluations are commonly used to provide feedback and incentives to workers. However, such evaluations can generate significant disagreements and conflicts, the severity of which may be driven by many factors. In this paper we show that a workers' level of self-confidence...

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