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...

Bosses play an important role in workplaces. Yet little is currently known about a foundational question. Are the right people promoted to be managers, team leaders, and supervisors? Gallup data and the famous Peter Principle both suggest that incompetent bosses are likely to be all around us....

This study examines the relationship between appreciative behavior and employee well-being on a daily basis. The theoretical rationale of our approach is based in leadership concepts emphasizing the relational aspect of leadership, and, more generally, in a framework that emphasizes the central...

The study was conducted to examine the effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Pre-determined structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 126 employees working in banking sector of district Peshawar. Transformational leadership was...

The study investigates the impact of Distributive Justice (DJ) on trust in leader and employee turnover intention in organisations. The paper also tests Islamic Work Ethics (IWE) and organizational culture as moderators. Data were collected from 176 respondents working in telecom sector....

There is a shift in organizational focus from purely economic and social activities towards spiritual development. This phenomenon places spirituality as part of the development of holistic human resources. This study examined workplace spirituality’s role as a mediating variable in the...

This paper focuses on transformational leadership, job autonomy, and work engagement in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These concepts have been widely studied across the world, however authors could find no such study for Bosnian labor market. Authors conducted an empirical study using a questionnaire...