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Artz, B. M., Goodall, Amanda and Oswald, Andrew J. (2017) Boss competence and worker well-being. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 70 (2). pp. 419-450. doi:10.1177/0019793916650451 ISSN 0019-7939.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019793916650451
Abstract
Nearly all workers have a supervisor or “boss.” Yet little is known about how bosses influence the quality of employees’ lives. This study offers new evidence. First, the authors find that a boss’s technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker’s job satisfaction. Second, they demonstrate using longitudinal data, after controlling for fixed-effects, that even if a worker stays in the same job and workplace, a rise in the competence of a supervisor is associated with an improvement in the worker’s well-being. Third, the authors report a variety of robustness checks, including tentative instrumental variable results. These findings, which draw on U.S. and British data, contribute to an emerging literature on the role of “expert leaders” in organizations.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Middle managers, Leadership, Job satisfaction , Happiness | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Industrial and Labor Relations Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0019-7939 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 70 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 419-450 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0019793916650451 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 January 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 2 February 2017 |
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