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The economics of child well-being
Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J. - 2012
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in international comparisons. Recent evidence on child development is summarized, and policies to promote...
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Evaluation of a long-term transformational leadership development program
Abrell, Carolin; Rowold, Jens; Weibler, Jürgen; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 3, pp. 205-224
This study represents a multi-method, multi-source, and longitudinal evaluation of a leadership development program in … Germany. For the development of transformational leadership, the methods of leadership feedback, training, and coaching were …. Altogether, 25 leaders participated in the program. The results revealed that transformational leadership (subordinate assessment …
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The determinants of managerial decisions under risk
Kocher, Martin G.; Pogrebna, Ganna; Sutter, Matthias - 2008
In hierarchical organizations the role of a team leader often requires making decisions which do not necessarily coincide with the majority opinion of the team. However, these decisions are final and binding for all team members. We study experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders...
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The Leader as Catalyst: On Leadership and the Mechanics of Institutional Change
Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2007
of social and economic reform. In this paper we take a first step towards analyzing the role of leadership to ask: when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940742
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Leadership Skills and Wages
Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - 2002
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers? ?leadership? skills. Is there such a thing, and is it … leadership positions in high school earn more as adults, even when cognitive skills are held constant. The pure leadership …-wage effect varies from four percent for a broad definition of leadership in 1971 to twenty-four percent for a narrow definition …
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Leading with(out) sacrifice? A public-goods experiment with a super-additive player
Glöckner, Andreas; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Kube, Sebastian; … - 2009
We analyse two team settings in which one member in a team has stronger incentives to contribute than the others. If contributions constitute a sacrifice for the strong player, the other team members are more inclined to cooperate than if contributions are strictly dominant for the strong player.
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Deciding to decide: gender, leadership and risk-taking in groups
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Yigit - 2010
on behalf of the group. We also present several results on the relationship of risk-taking and leadership decisions with …
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Personality, Group Decision-Making and Leadership
Ertac, Seda; Gurdal, Mehmet Y. - 2012
This paper explores the effect of personality traits on: (1) the willingness to make risk-taking decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the nature of "choice shifts", i.e. the difference between the amount of risk taken in the group context and individually. Openness and agreeableness emerge as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500224
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Kunden- und unternehmensorientierte Führung und Führungskräfteförderung in der Mercedes-Benz AG
Götz, Klaus - 1997
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The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy
Makin, Anthony; Zhang, Wei; Scobie, Grant - 2008
New Zealand's unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the discussion of New Zealand's economic relations with its trading partners is the positive contribution...
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