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How Common Are Bad Bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931790
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Why do leaders matter? The role of expert knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study … systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268751
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435264
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Boss competence and worker well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417963
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How common are bad bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913230
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or 'boss'. Yet there is almost no published research by economists into how bosses affect the quality of employees' lives. This study offers some of the first formal evidence. First, it is shown that a boss's technical competence is the single strongest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959573
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Why Do Leaders Matter? The Role of Expert Knowledge
Goodall, Amanda H.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study … systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders …’ characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of a leader’s success in year T is that person’s own level of attainment, in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822232