Who's the Boss? The Effect of Strong Leadership on Employee Turnover / Susan Payne Carter, Whitney Dudley, David S. Lyle, John Z. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Susan Payne.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Dudley, Whitney.

Lyle, David S.

Smith, John Z.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22383.

NBER working paper series no. w22383

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

Despite the importance placed on supervision in the workplace, little is known about the effects of a boss' leadership quality on labor market outcomes such as employee job retention. Using plausibly exogenous assignment of junior officers to bosses in the U.S. Army, we find positive retention effects for those assigned to immediate and senior bosses who are good leaders. These effects are strongest for officers with high SAT scores. Junior officers who share the same home geographic region, high SAT, and undergraduate institution as their bosses who also have strong leadership qualities retain at the highest rates.

Notes:

Print version record

July 2016.