We examine the role of managerial talent and its interaction with practices in determining firm performance. build a matched firm-director panel dataset for universe limited liability companies Italy, tracking individuals across different firms over time. define as management's capacity to boost firms' total factor productivity, estimated using two-way fixed effects model. Combining data survey...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the contribution of social structural characteristics on employee empowerment and whether proactive personality plays a role in moderating the above stated relationship among managers in Malaysia. Hierarchical regression analyses of 584 responses revealed that social structural characteristics of self-esteem, power distribution, information sharing, kno...

This paper examines how middle managers subvert organizational norms through diverse forms of deviance. Considering deviance not only in its negative sense, but including elements adaptability and innovation, we draw on Mertonian theorizing around structural strains to explain as resulting from mismatches between everyday work ‘on-the-ground’, with practices feeding back iteratively into norm f...

This study investigated the relationships among managerial leadership, transformational and performance of school administrators Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College (NIPSC) through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Covariance-Based SEM (CB-SEM), Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) with its default Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) were used to test hypothesized model that leadership co...

ethics is an essential requirement for a sound and healthy society. it is due to its positive individual, organizational, and social consequences that ethics has always provoked scholars, instructors, and organization managers to try to maintain and improve it. the adaptation of managerial solutions will gradually result in the improvement of trust, commitment, and effort which are all necessar...