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To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization …
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Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence … regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an … management practices: (i) performance monitoring; (ii) performance feedback; (iii) target setting; and (iv) pro-social incentives …
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example, an increase of trust in management that is about one tenth of the scale is equivalent to more than 30% increase in …
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We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value added models with school fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to account for the endogeneity of peer group formation. We find statistically significant and robust spillover...
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The sustained rise in German unemployment since 1973 poses a problem of critical importance for the world economy. Fewer than two decades ago, Germany boasted an average unemployment rate of under 1% and imported labor to relieve chronic labor shortages. By the mid-1980s, unemployment had risen...
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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 …
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We evaluate secure survey methods designed for the ongoing monitoring of harassment in organizations. We use the resulting data to answer policy relevant questions about the nature of harassment: How prevalent is it? What share of managers is responsible for the misbehavior? How isolated are its...
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Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD addressed this challenge by using information produced by its evaluation and compensation reforms as the basis for effectiveness-adjusted payments that provided large...
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the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch … operations of a large bank. Case studies of several branches were used to understand how and why the human resource management …-specific characteristics, the human resource management environment at the branch, as measured by the performance evaluation and feedback …
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We use the COVID shock to study the direct and interactive effects of several forms of corporate flexibility on short- and long-term real business plans. We find that i) workplace flexibility, namely the ability for employees to work remotely, plays a central role in determining firms'...
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