How Does the Gender and Attractiveness of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of Supervisees? Implications for Hiring Processes in New Ventures
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Philipp Koellinger, Joern H. Block, 'How Does the Gender and Attractiveness of the Supervisor Influence the Performance of Supervisees? Implications for Hiring Processes in New Ventures', Senate Hall, 2016, International Review of Entrepreneurship, 395-422Download Item:
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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. Implications of the findings for the hiring processes in new ventures are discussed.
Keywords: supervision, mixed-sex interaction, performance, entrepreneurial leadership, hiring processes
PsycINFO codes: 2340, 2970, 3620
Author: Koellinger, Philipp; Block, Joern H.
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