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Leader Effects in Competition Among Teams : Evidence from a Field Intervention
Casas-Arce, Pablo; Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis - 2021
tournaments there was an additional prize for the branch manager). We also surveyed the branch managers and employees prior to our … intervention to measure the team characteristics and the leadership style of the managers, and we evaluate the pictures that teams … encouraging managers to monitor employees more closely, but at the same time, hampering their efforts to build team spirit …
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What Form of Relative Performance Evaluation?
Celentani, Marco; Loveira, Rosa - 2004
We study relative performance evaluation in executive compensation when executives have private information about their ability. We assume that the joint distribution of an individual firm's profit and market movements depends on the ability of the executive that runs the firm. In the...
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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Incentivizing Team Leaders : A Firm-Level Experiment on Subjective Performance Evaluation of Leadership Skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
managers, coupled with bonuses based on their leadership rank among all leaders. Our intervention increased worker productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344730
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Incentives and Management Styles
Shin, Dongsoo - 2015
In a principal-agent framework, we explain different managing styles. In our model, there are two vertical tasks -- an upstream task for improving the project's potential environment, and a downstream task for implementing the project. The downstream task must be done by the worker, but the...
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Subordinates as threats to leaders
Glazer, Amihai; Segendorff, Björn - 2001
A leader of an organization may view a subordinate as threatening or weakening the leader's position. The threat may increase with the subordinate's ability and reduce the rents the leader wins. In particular, a leader who trains his subordinate reduces the cost to the owner of a firm in...
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The value of leadership : evidence from a large-scale field experiment
Englmaier, Florian; Grimm, Stefan; Grothe, Dominik; … - 2021
Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners alike have emphasized the potential of leadership to foster performance in these settings. However, the causal impact of leadership is difficult to identify, as in agile and...
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Credit claiming
Glazer, Amihai (contributor); Segendorff, Björn (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We consider a leader and a subordinate he appoints who engage in team production. The public observes the organization's performance, but is unable to determine the separate contributions of the leader and of the subordinate. The leader may therefore claim credit for the good work of his...
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Misconduct and leader behaviour in contests : new evidence from European football
Kempa, Karol; Rusch, Hannes - 2016 - Version: 20 May 2016
This paper provides an empirical investigation of severe misconducts in contests based on data from European football championships. We differentiate between two types of severe misconducts both resulting in a yellow card, namely dissents with the referee and other misconducts, and between...
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Leading by Example in Socially Driven Organizations : The Effect of Transparent Leader Compensation Contracts on Following
Schuhmacher, Karl; Towry, Kristy L.; Zureich, Jacob - 2021
Leading by example is one of the most powerful methods to encourage individuals to work toward a common objective. Despite the importance of leadership, little is known about how the effectiveness of leading by example depends on institutional features, such as the transparency and design of...
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