Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34833 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3645
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be commercial awareness, where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is implicitly an insurance one, with managers taking a share in deviations of actual sales from expected. At the same time, abler managers do not receive higher pay all else equal, which implies that middle management ability is not fully tradable.
Subjects: 
Management
firm behaviour
business economics
productivity
compensation methods
JEL: 
D21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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