We show that firms with chief executive officers (CEOs) who gain general managerial skills over their lifetime work experience invest more in R&D and produce more patents. We address the potential endogenous CEO-firm matching bias using firmand CEOfixed effects and variation in the enforceability of non-compete agreements across states and over time during the CEO’s career. Our findings suggest...

We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate whether interaction with successful firms increases managerial skill and profit among Kenyan microenterprises. Owners are assigned to receive classroom business training, meet with a randomly assigned successful firm (“mentorship”), or neither. Over the course of a year, mentee weekly profit is on average 20 percent higher than the control while ...

In Saudi Arabia community pharmacies by law, be owned and managed by pharmacists. Although these two functions seemed to be the same but in reality, they are not. Some studies showed that in community pharmacy managerial functions account for more than 50% of total routine and critical activity for all managerial position surveyed while other study showed that only 13.6% of the pharmacist’s tim...

background: job stress is one of the important issues in the health sector and its high effect on workers’ productivity. managerial skills can help organizations to improve employees’ effectiveness and reduce job stress. the present study investigated the relationship between employees’ job stress and managers’ professional skills. methods: this cross-sectional and correlation study was conduct...

The relationship between the perceived importance of managerial skills and self-assessed proficiency in each skill among health-system pharmacy managers in Canada was examined, and the demographic characteristics associated with pharmacy managers who lack these skills were analyzed. Surveys were mailed to 514 health-system pharmacy managers in Canada in July 2000. The survey listed 61 specific ...