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Title: Relative Supervisor Education and Worker Well-being
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Artz, Benjamin |
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Relative Supervisor Education and Worker Well-being International Journal of Manpower 39,5 (2018): 731-745. Also: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abstract/10.1108/IJM-01-2017-0022 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Emerald Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Job Satisfaction; Supervisor Characteristics; Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Purpose: Less educated supervisors create worker status incongruence, a violation of social norms that signals advancement uncertainty and job ambiguity for workers, and leads to negative behavioral and well-being outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to compare education levels of supervisors with their workers and measure the correlation between relative supervisor education and worker job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: Using the only wave of the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth that identifies education levels of both supervisor and worker, a series of ordered probit estimates describe the relationship between supervisor education levels and subordinate worker well-being. Extensive controls, sub-sample estimates and a control for sorting confirm the estimates. Findings: Worker well-being is negatively correlated with having a less educated supervisor and positively correlated with having a more educated supervisor. This result is robust to a number of alternative specifications. In sub-sample estimates, workers highly placed in an organization’s hierarchy do not exhibit reduced well-being with less educated supervisors. |
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Artz, Benjamin. "Relative Supervisor Education and Worker Well-being." International Journal of Manpower 39,5 (2018): 731-745.
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