The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gronqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik
• 署名单位: Stockholm School of Economics; Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 869-898
• 关键词: world-war-ii; social-security data; transformational leadership; educational-attainment; firm performance; field experiment; draft lottery; high-school; service; IMPACT

摘要

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability of attaining a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75%. Officer training also increases educational attainment post-military service. We argue that the effect on civilian leadership could be due to the acquisition of leadership-specific skills during the military service, and we present suggestive evidence related to alternative mechanisms, such as signaling, networks, and training unrelated to leadership.