Attractive Supervisors: How Does the Gender of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of the Supervisees?
2012-02-10
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A series of field and laboratory experiments were conducted in which single-sex groups of male or female students competed in different intellectual tasks to earn money or university grades (N = 291). The supervisor of these groups was one of several young and attractive males or females. The results show that when the supervisor was a female, the performance of male participants was, on average, negatively influenced. Group size moderated this effect such that having a female supervisor produced a negative effect in small groups and a positive effect in large groups of male supervisees.
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Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- J01 : Labor Economics: General
- M54 : Labor Management (team formation, worker empowerment, job design, tasks and authority, job satisfaction)
- D03 : Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles
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