Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership … region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the …

minority job performance. In the stores studied, cashiers work with different managers on different days and their schedules … are determined quasi-randomly. When minority cashiers, but not majority cashiers, are scheduled to work with managers who … minority workers: while on average minority and majority workers perform equivalently, on days where managers are unbiased …

We study the relation between mutual fund managers' family backgrounds and their professional performance. Using hand …-collected data from individual Census records on the wealth and income of managers' parents, we find that managers from poor families … deliver higher alphas than managers from rich families. This result is robust to alternative measures of fund performance …

large misperceptions among the employees about the salaries of their managers and smaller but still significant … employees' own behavior. When they find out that their managers earn more than they thought, employees work harder on average …