, we vary managers' ability to monitor and manage employee skills. We find that removing managers' access to hard … information on employee skills reduced training intensity, work performance, and job satisfaction. Combining detailed personnel …We study the value of skill management in organizations. In a natural field experiment with 2,582 service technicians …

requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is … appointed by lottery, in part because self-promoted managers are overconfident, especially about their social skills. Managerial …. Selecting managers on skills rather than demographics or preferences for leadership could substantially increase organizational …

We propose a theory that emphasizes the role of managers for the production and allocation of human capital in firms …. Managers invest time to train junior employees, and acquire information about the juniors' abilities that is valuable for job … assignments. This dual role of managers matters especially in a multidivisional firm, whose internal labor market may be …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

Management in der Krise über bestimmte Kompetenzen verfügen, die entlang des Krisenverlaufs unterschiedliche Ausprägungen …