 Management and Shocks to Worker ProductivityAchyuta Adhvaryu, Namrata Kala and Anant Nyshadham No 25865, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc Abstract: The assignment of workers to tasks is an important feature of the organization of production within firms. We study how task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to particulate matter pollution, we show that productivity suffers as a result of pollution shocks; this effect is heterogeneous across workers and tasks. Managers respond by reassigning workers to tasks in which they perform better on average during shocks. This response is larger for managers who we identify, via survey-based measurement, as exhibiting greater managerial attention, and these same managers are also the ones who are most able to mitigate resulting productivity declines. JEL-codes: L23 M11 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published as Achyuta Adhvaryu & Namrata Kala & Anant Nyshadham, 2022. "Management and Shocks to Worker Productivity," Journal of Political Economy, vol 130(1), pages 1-47. Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:25865 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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