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How do you find a good manager?
Weidmann, Ben; Vecci, Joseph; Said, Farah; Deming, David J. - 2024
This paper develops a novel method to identify the causal contribution of managers to team performance. The method requires repeated random assignment of managers to multiple teams and controls for individuals' skills. A good manager is someone who consistently causes their team to produce more...
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Incentivizing team leaders : a firm-level experiment on subjective performance evaluation of leadership skills
Gall, Thomas; Hu, Xiaocheng; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2023
In teamwork settings, providing effective leadership can be challenging for team leaders due to multitasking and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278019
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Teamwork and intra-firm wage dispersion among blue-collar workers
Jirjahn, Uwe (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
moderating factors play an important role. While teamwork interacts positively with employer-provided further training and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652704
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Jacks-of-All-Trades? : the effect of balanced skills on team performance
Rosendahl Huber, Laura; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014
Previous empirical studies have shown that solo entrepreneurs benefit from having balanced skills: Jacks-of-All-Trades (JATs) are better entrepreneurs than specialists are. Nowadays however, the majority of entrepreneurs start up and run ventures together in teams. In this paper we test whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364491
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Heterogeneous worker ability and team-based production : evidence from major league baseball, 1920-2009
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael - 2010
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then aggregated to the team level for the period 1920-2009 in order to test whether teams built on a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013039
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Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Blundell, Richard W.; … - 2023
We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co-workers, as a driver for individual wage growth for workers with few formal educational qualifications. We show that...
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Profit sharing and workplace productivity : does teamwork play a role?
Long, Richard J.; Fang, Tony - 2013
The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit sharing plan and subsequent productivity growth in Canadian establishments, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229935
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Racing against time in research : a study of the 1995 U.S. patent law amendment
Kim, Jinyoung - 2017
Teamwork in research has been on the rise and so has the size of R&D teams. This paper offers an explanation for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664519
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Complements or substitutes? : examining the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2024
Teamwork has become widely embraced in recent decades; however, its adoption carries significant implications that … require thorough understanding. In this paper, we study the relationship between teamwork and selection intensity. The use of … complementary skills. However, teamwork may also substitute intensive selection if team members engage in mutual monitoring and peer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014502848
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Transparency, inequity aversion, and the dynamics of peer pressure in teams : theory and evidence
Mohnen, Alwine (contributor); Pokorny, Kathrin (contributor) - 2008
We provide an explanation for peer pressure in teams based on inequity aversion. Analyzing a two-period model with two agents, we find that the effect of inequity aversion strongly depends on the information structure. When contributions are unobservable, agents act as if they were purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652683