Boss Competence and Worker Well-Being

Nearly all workers have a supervisor or “boss.” Yet little is known about how bosses influence the quality of employees’ lives. This study offers new evidence. First, the authors find that a boss’s technical competence is the single strongest predictor of a worker’s job satisfaction. Second, they de...

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Volume:	70
Main Author:	Artz, Benjamin M Goodall, Amanda H Oswald, Andrew J
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2017 SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
published in:	Industrial & labor relations review Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 419 - 450
Data of publication:	20170300
ISSN:	0019-7939 2162-271X
EISSN:	2162-271X
Discipline:	Economics Law
Subjects:	Business & Economics Social Sciences Industrial Relations & Labor economics labor-management relations organizational behavior workplace job satisfaction PERFORMANCE INVOLVEMENT REPRESENTATION JOB-SATISFACTION FIRMS MANAGEMENT-PRACTICES HAPPINESS PANEL-DATA LEADERSHIP UNION
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS