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Organisational Leadership: How Much Does It Matter?
Haile, Getinet Astatike - 2022
We study the influence of leadership on organisational performance and worker wellbeing using data from the 2004 and … organisational performance, and an increase in worker wellbeing. Specifically, the estimates reveal that an increase in leadership … quality by one standard deviation increases organisational performance and worker job satisfaction by 0.27 and 0.73 standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426403
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Endogenous Leadership: Selection and Influence
Arbak, Emrah; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In social dilemmas, leading a team by making heroic efforts may prove costly, especially if the followers are not adequately motivated to make similar sacrifices. Attempting to understand what motivates these seemingly selfless individuals to lead, we report the results of a two-stage public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822607
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959573
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto; Timko, Krisztina - 2017
We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653225
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Boss Competence and Worker Well-being
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435264
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How Common Are Bad Bosses?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931790
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Teamwork, Leadership and Gender
De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2018
We ran a field experiment to investigate whether individual performance in teams depends on the gender of the leader … work of the team. We find a positive and significant effect of female leadership on team performance. This effect is driven … by the higher performance of team members in female led teams rather than due to an improvement in the leader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931826
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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions
Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015
The supply of women into senior management has changed little despite well-intentioned efforts. We argue that the biggest effect is from supply-side factors that inhibit females' decision to enter competitions: Women are under-confident about winning, men are over-confident; women are more risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345393
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Expert Leaders in a Fast-Moving Environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an ‘expert … competitive high-technology sectors (Formula 1 competition) in which each organization’s performance can be measured objectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661200
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Expert leaders in a fast-moving environment
Goodall, Amanda H.; Pogrebna, Ganna - 2012
This paper is an attempt to understand the effects of leaders on organizational performance. We argue for an expert … high-technology sectors (Formula 1 competition) in which each organization's performance can be measured objectively. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287664