The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of manager-employee relationships and its impact on talent retention. The study discusses the power distance between managers and employees in knowledge-intensive sectors like Information Technology services industry. Grounded Theory...

Using data from a large U.S. retail firm, we examine how racial matches between managers and their employees affect rates of employee quits, dismissals and promotions. We exploit changes in management at hundreds of stores to estimate hazard models with store fixed effects that control for all...