Relative supervisor education and worker well-being.

Autor/in	Artz, Benjamin
Titel	Relative supervisor education and worker well-being. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Relative Bildung von Vorgesetzten und Wohlbefinden von Arbeitnehmern.
Quelle	In: International journal of manpower, 39 (2018) 5, S. 731-745 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-7720; 1758-6577
DOI	10.1108/IJM-01-2017-0022
Schlagwörter	Zufriedenheit; Arbeit; Qualifikationsdefizit; Qualifikationsniveau; Abhängig Beschäftigter; Führungskraft; Vorgesetzter; USA
Abstract	"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.; Research limitations/implications; A limitation is the inability to control for worker fixed effects, which may introduce omitted variable bias into the estimates.; Originality/value; The paper is the first to introduce relative supervisor - worker education level as a determinant of worker well-being." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/3