the high stress in these situations. Direct managers in particular are an important factor influencing these attitudes … of support. This sug-gests that direct managers act as sources of support during public administration reforms and use … may indicate that different types of support are more or less relevant de-pending on the situation. For managers in this …

maintain or even enhance the employees working ability studies identified the quality of leadership. The following thesis … brings the concept of age-related leadership into focus, which deals with the individual, age-related needs of the employees …'. It examines the relationship between leaders age-related leadership behaviors and followers' perception of quality of …

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity … equal, managers who themselves played at a higher level raise the productivity of less-skilled teams by more than that of … subordinates the skills needed to succeed, since less skilled players have more to learn. We also find that managers with more …

leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and … show that the most successful team leaders in F1 motor racing are more likely to have started their careers as drivers and … mechanics compared with leaders who were principally managers or engineers with degrees. There is a notable association between …

of social and economic reform. In this paper we take a first step towards analyzing the role of leadership to ask: when …

achievement, social competence, training-specific 'jobability', training- specific autonomous activity. The results show a clear …

projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing technical and scientific competence, R&D management competence and …This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co … competence being developed appear to be better predictors of concrete project outcomes than geographic distance, differences in …

principals. The "governor's dilemma" results from the tradeoff between agent competence and principal control. Competent agents … impedes agent competence by constraining the development and exercise of agent capabilities. If a principal emphasizes control …, it limits agent competence and risks policy failure; if it emphasizes competence, it provides opportunistic agents …