This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an expert leader model of leadership. We differentiate between four kinds of leaders according to their level of inherent knowledge and industry experience. After controlling for confounding...

This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved individual heterogeneity and allows for both an endogenous...

We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital, unobserved (to the econometrician) individual specific attributes, time varying firm specific variables (firm...

Our experiment investigates managers’ self-predictions of their subsequent performance and, based upon, their choice of a collaborator. Our results show that managers’ self-predictions are not biased anymore after they are informed about the performance of a reference group. In spite of...

Die Studie enthält die Ergebnisse der 7. HR-Expertenbefragung mit der Zeitschrift Personalwirtschaft zum Thema „Führungskräftebeurteilung“ und dessen Weiterentwicklung zum 360°-Feedback. Betrachtet und kritisch kommentiert werden der gegenwärtige Verbreitungsgrad und der realisierte...

A vast labor literature has found evidence of a glass ceiling, whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved differences in productivity, preferences, prejudice, or systematically biased beliefs about the ability...

This research aims to identify and categorise the key competencies required for managers to effectively lead small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through the digital transformation process. Utilising a qualitative approach, the study employs Mayring's content analysis to examine...

Managers ("bosses") are central to the development and allocation of human capital in firms because they train employees and learn about their abilities. While a multi-divisional firm wants to allocate workers to wherever they are most productive, bosses who are rewarded for their units'...

Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices that matter. We shed light on this question by...

When a worker is raided, his initial employer is often better informed about his quality than the raiders. If the worker has career concerns and matching influence productivity, the initial employer can strategically disclose this information to influence incentives and matching efficiency. If...