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analyse whether managers’ beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH affect their adoption decisions. Exploiting exogenous … variation in managers’ information set, we find that managers update their beliefs about the productivity effects of WFH when … increases managers’ willingness to adopt or intensify WFH policies. Combining our main survey experiment with two follow …
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COVID-19-induced digital surveillance has ballooned in an unprecedented fashion, causing a reconfiguration of power relationships in professional settings. This article critically concentrates on the interplay between technology-enabled intrusive monitoring and the managerial prerogatives...
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The shift to remote work mode significantly impacts the way people work, especially middle managers, who play a … terms of operations and organizational culture. Based on the responses of 200 managers from five Latin American countries …
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The Covid-19 pandemic and the corresponding shift toward working from home (WFH) amplifies control problems within organizations and poses severe challenges for management control as employees’ tasks are difficult to observe under WFH conditions. We examine how the physically distant working...
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This study explores how teleworking is perceived by employees and highlights its possible benefits and pitfalls. Interviews with sixty-two teleworkers in five UK organisations provide a comprehensive view on this mode of work. In particular the study examines teleworking impact on effectiveness,...
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introduce a model, in which managers and agents exert effort in a joint production, after the manager decides on the allocation …
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Netherlands, we show that firms have higher shares of managers in their personnel if they employ more flexible workers. This fits … bureaucracies than "Rhineland" countries with more regulated labour markets. We also find that percentages of managers in younger … firms do not differ from those in older firms, while smaller firms have relatively more managers than larger firms. Moreover …
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This research investigated employees' psychological dispositions of positive affect, negative affect, and cynicism as potential influences upon their perceptions of psychological contract fulfillment or violation. Leader-member exchange (LMX) was hypothesized to serve as a partial mediator of...
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This article explains why leadership-as-practice development (LAPD) is a preferred leadership development approach in the contemporary digital era. Rather than dwelling on generic leader competencies that may not apply to the setting, learning is brought into “lived” (not simulated)...
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organization and group. The importance of team member attributes varies with domain and within a profession. Team managers may … display different preferences as to the ideal composition of qualities possessed by good team members.To enable managers to … demonstrates that while a set of characteristics can be identified for a domain, different managers are concerned with different …
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