The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economyﾒs best and … brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and … ability is always higher in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers self-select into the …

managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …

mobility in the CEO market, even though firms demand general CEO skills. The empowerment mechanism explains why CEOs are …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

returns are most apparent for those SMEs that invest in human resource management practices, such as training and performance …We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official …

at lower levels. Female managers have stronger beliefs in their own managerial abilities regarding feminine skills and … weaker beliefs in their masculine skills, whereas the opposite is observed for male managers. Gender stereotypes and self …-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The …

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed … at work are strong predictors of training participation whilepersonality traits are not. Once working tasks and other job … related characteristics arecontrolled for, the skill gap in training participation drops considerably for off …