We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

indicated that a clear hierarchy exists for men in term of how status within the labour market was associated with subjective … life satisfaction. Unemployed men were the least satisfied, followed by men who were not in the labour market, while men in … satisfaction, compared with women in other labour-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention that men can have it …

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be commercial awareness, where … managers do not receive higher pay all else equal, which implies that middle management ability is not fully tradable. …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

of a health care management consulting intervention. One set of PHCs received a detailed improvement plan and nine months …