Purpose: This article investigates the influence of a manager's psychological capital (Psycap) and Personality Traits, based on the Five Factor Model (FFM), on their Propensity to Trust their direct-reports. While most literature focuses on subordinates' trust in managers, this study explores...

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer-employee administrative data with machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is...

Executive management as a distinct occupational category from general management seems to be becoming increasingly professionalized. From a power perspective, CEOs dominate the decision-making apparatus of our major business enterprises. From an attribute approach to professionalization, there...

Christian leadership should be biblically-based to be truly Christian. The understanding of Imago Dei and Shalom will greatly impact ones leadership, guiding organizational objectives and goals advancing success. These two paradigms shape a leaders actions, behaviors and decisions ensuring they...

This study investigates empirically how managerial practices have affected macroeconomic adjustment during the Great Recession after the 2008 economic crisis. We start by constructing a country*industry balanced panel data over the 2007-2015 period for eighteen industries in ten OECD countries,...

Many observers consider the most important responsibility of the board of directors its responsibility to hire and fire the CEO. To this end, an interesting situation arises when a CEO resigns and the board chooses neither an internal nor external candidate, but a current board member as...

Middle managers were asked to report in a questionnaire what they perceived to be the effect of the contextual variables of decentralization and environmental uncertainty on the strategic role of management information. The respondent middle managers worked for a foreign subsidiary of a large,...