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Environmental engagement, religion and spirituality in the context of secularization
Briguglio, Marie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2020
religion and environmental engagement, including pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.Empirical results are diverse and … increasingly important phenomenon which has received far less attention is that of spirituality, within/out the context of a … religion. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the question in a predominantly Roman Catholic European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388999
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What does leadership look like in schools and does it matter for school performance?
Stokes, Lucy; Bryson, Alex; Wilkinson, David - 2019
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101976
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Leader identity and coordination
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer; … - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906496
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Female workers, male managers : gender, leadership, and risk-taking
Rinne, Ulf; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2019
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using data from international top-level women's soccer, we provide evidence that male coaches show a lower level of risk-taking than female coaches on average. We also find a U-shaped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130097
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The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: the CC strategy
Kosfeld, Michael - 2019
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062918
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Women at the top in developing countries : evidence from firm-level data
Sekkat, Khalid; Szafarz, Ariane; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396743
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On the effectiveness of elected male and female leaders and team coordination
Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607378
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Boss competence and worker well-being
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417963
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Leaders as role models for the voluntary provision of public goods
Gächter, Simon; Renner, Elke - 2014
We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418877
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Women have to enter the leadership race to win : using random selection to increase the supply of women into senior positions
Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015
The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337023