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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity
Bender, Stefan - 2016
advanced management practices. Many of these practices – including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives – are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …
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Managerial Attributes and Executive Compensation
Graham, John R. - 2011
management styles (i.e., manager fixed effects in corporate policies). Finally, the method used in the paper has a number of …
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Does Gender Matter for Political Leadership? The Case of U.S. Mayors
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2011
What are the consequences of electing a female leader for policy and political outcomes? We answer this question in the context of U.S. cities, where women's participation in mayoral elections increased from negligible numbers in 1970 to about one-third of the elections in the 2000's. We use a...
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Leaders : Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War
Costa, Dora L. - 2011
The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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Leadership : A Personnel Economics Approach
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
A theory of leadership is proposed and tested. Leaders are characterized as those who have the ability to choose the right direction more frequently than their peers. The theory implies that leaders tend to be more able, place themselves in visible decision making situations more frequently, and...
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Leadership in Groups : A Monetary Policy Experiment
Blinder, Alan S. - 2010
In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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Managerial Quality and Productivity Dynamics
Adhvaryu, Achyuta - 2019
Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced into wages? Combining two years of daily, line-level production data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line...
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover
Carter, Susan - 2016
Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership quality on labor market outcomes such as employee job retention. Using plausibly exogenous assignment of junior officers to bosses in the U.S. Army, we find positive retention...
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How Do CEOS See Their Role? Management Philosophy and Styles in Family and Non-Family Firms
Mullins, William - 2014
Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the … hierarchical management, and feel more accountable to stakeholders such as employees and banks than they do to shareholders. They … arrangements in how intensively family members are involved in management …
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