Our Workshops
Tue 23 Apr, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Sonia BhalotraS0.13TITLE: Identifying Managerial Skill (joint with: Ben Weidmann (Harvard), Joe Vecci (Gothenburg), Farah Said (Lahore), David Deming (Harvard)) ABSTRACT: We know that managers matter but we do not know how to prospectively identify good managers. We demonstrate the potential of using repeated random assignment to identify the causal contribution managers make to teams, and the measurable skills associated with this. We randomly assign managers to multiple teams, and predict team performance based on the team’s endowment of productive skill. Some managers consistently cause their teams to exceed predicted performance. Managerial skills are roughly as important to team outcomes as worker productivity. Good managers score higher on measures of allocative skill, and there are no differences in managerial skill across gender, age and ethnicity. We experimentally evaluate different methods of manager selection. People who select into managerial roles are typically not better managers than those appointed by lottery. However, selecting managers based on allocative skill dramatically improves team performance. |
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Tue 30 Apr, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Arun Advani (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 7 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Subhasish Dey (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 14 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - MatthewS2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 21 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - Farzad Javidanrad (Warwick)S2.79Title to be advised. |
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Tue 28 May, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workship - Devesh Rustagi (Warwick)S0.09Title to be advised. |
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Tue 4 Jun, '24- |
CWIP (CAGE Work in Progress) Workshop - to be advisedS0.09Title to be advised. |