In an era of globalisation, decentralisation, and knowledge-based economies, governments are having to reshape public sector leadership to cope with new challenges. This environment requires new roles for public sector leaders including change agents, promoters of enhanced performance,...

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...

We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest level of competition) that, other things being equal, managers who themselves played at a higher...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat das Forschungsfeld Organizational Justice kontinuierlich an Bedeutung gewonnen. Auch innerhalb der Führungsforschung wird organisationaler Gerechtigkeit nunmehr verstärkt Aufmerksamkeit gewidmet. Insofern in Organisationen die Wahrnehmung der Gerechtigkeit von...

This article concerns itself with the effects of dismissal protection on personnel management behaviour within companies. The basis of the empirical analysis is 41 expert interviews conducted in 2006 as well as information available from a standardised survey of 750 personnel managers which was...

Der Bericht weißt auf eine neue Einrichtung des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums für Wirtschaft hin. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Rationalisierungskuratoriums der Deutschen Wirtschaft Sachsen wurde das Förderprogramm "Begleitende Beratung - Coaching" entwickelt. Das Programm bietet den...