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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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To understand leadership, it is necessary to understand the purpose of an organization. Organizations are hierarchies … with leaders at the top. Why do we have leaders instead of an algorithm making decisions? The theory of the firm recognizes … specific contributions of leaders. Leadership is the ability to successfully manage transaction costs of an organization …
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How much do a manager's interpersonal skills with subordinates, which we call people management skills, affect employee …-measured people management skills have a strong negative relation to employee turnover. A causal interpretation is reinforced by … research designs exploiting new workers joining the firm and managers moving jobs. However, people management skills do not …
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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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We show that leadership skill with artificially intelligent (AI) agents predicts leadership skill with human groups. In … "AI leadership test" was strongly correlated (ρ=0.81) with their causal impact as leaders of human teams, which we … greatly simplifies the measurement of leadership and teamwork skills …
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Dynastic management is the inter-generational transmission of control over assets that is typical of family-owned firms …. It is pervasive around the World, but especially in developing countries. We argue that dynastic management is a … incidence of dynastic management depends on the severity of asset-market imperfections, on the economy's saving rate, and on the …
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We examine businesses' financial management of a rare, severe event using detailed firm-level data collected following …
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Using the dollar-value a mutual fund manager adds as the measure of skill, we find that not only does skill exist (the average mutual fund manager adds about $2 million per year), but this skill is persistent, as far out as 10 years. We further document that investors recognize this skill and...
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