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In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
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. Our regression results show that differences in supervisors' people skills, as well as workforce trust, social preferences … experimental games by prior research. Together, the results corroborate the importance of both leadership quality and workforce …
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Using linked employer-employee data for Finland we examine associations between job design and ten measures of worker wellbeing. In accordance with Karasek's (1979) model we find positive correlations between many aspects of worker wellbeing and job control. However, contrary to the model, job...
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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance … evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a … Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that supervisors vary widely in how they rate subordinates of similar quality. To …
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more work meaningfulness and autonomy compared with being a salaried supervisor working for an employer. Wage supervisors … and self-employed supervisors experience similar stress levels and have similar earnings, though self- employed … supervisors work longer hours. Moreover, solo entrepreneurs experience slightly less work meaningfulness, but more autonomy …
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An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/ Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s – and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon....
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We study the relationship between age and influence in a closed group of 1,000 leading economists. We consider, as a measurement of influence, monthly RePEc rankings. We find that the rankings are not related to age but are related to experience. The optimal level of experience is 30 years from...
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trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
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Trust is crucial for successful collective action. A prime example is collective commercialization of agricultural …-day training on collective commercialization. We use this variation to identify effects on intra-group trust, both direct treatment … measures of trust in leaders' competence and motives and of trust in members we find that participating in the training …
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social capital as measured by interpersonal and institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We estimate the economic …
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