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Home | Events Archive | Management Style Under the Spotlight: Evidence from Studio Recordings
Seminar

Management Style Under the Spotlight: Evidence from Studio Recordings

  • Series
    Labor Seminars
  • Speaker(s)
    Simon Quinn (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
  • Field
    Empirical Microeconomics
  • Location
    Tinbergen Institute, Roeterseiland campus, E5.22
    Amsterdam
  • Date and time

    May 12, 2026
    16:00 - 17:00

Abstract

We introduce a new method for measuring managerial traits of young professionals: using management vignettes in a video studio. Using a Bayesian hierarchical model, we identify four distinct managerial archetypes: ‘rule-based’, ‘affiliative’, ‘power-based’ and ‘discretion-based’. We find that past labour market exposure (including exposure induced through a previous field experiment) correlates strongly with the propensity to act as a rule-based manager. Incentivized experiments reveal that firms consistently prefer this rule-based style for entry-level roles. Our results highlight embodied managerial traits as a key mechanism for labor market exclusion and offer new avenues for studying the development of managerial talent. Joint paper with Girum Abebe, Marcel Fafchamps, Michael Koelle, and Tom Schwantje.