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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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We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …
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leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and … mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …
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now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare women … based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that there are significant gender differences in personality … inequality of career chances between women and can be explained by differences in personality. Nevertheless, personality traits …
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, and personality traits explain these firm-level differences in helping and antisocial behavior in the workplace. Our … experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
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are now looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on gender differences in career chances and compare … personality traits, multivariate estimations and the decomposition of the gender career gap clearly indicate that these … inequality of career chances between women and can be explained by differences in personality. Nevertheless, personality traits …
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This paper evaluates the relationship between job satisfaction and measures of health of workers using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Methodologically, it addresses two important design problems encountered frequently in the literature: (a) cross-sectional causality problems and (b)...
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Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of High Performance Workplace Organizations (HPWOs) on worker's job satisfaction. The estimation results show that 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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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/10010435264