Managerial selection and organizational effectiveness in professional baseball: the Eighties
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ABSTRACT:
Prior research has established that the majority of managers in professional baseball between 1951 and 1980 had playing backgrounds associated with high interactive positions, and the group with the highest winning percentage was that with "no experience". One explanation for the disproportionate selection of managers from high interactive backgrounds is that those positions cultivate specific interpersonal and other skills which are deemed important for managerial roles. The research reported here examines managerial selection and organizational effectiveness during the 1980s. During the 1980s, people from high interactive backgrounds were still selected more often for managerial positions than those from other type of backgrounds. However, managers from the "no experience" backgrounds were selected more often during the 1980s than during the 1951-80 period, and still remain those with the best career winning percentage. The small increase in managers from no experience backgrounds may reflect a change in the type of skills being sought by ownership, which in turn may coincide with other changes in professional baseball which affect the manner in which players and managers relate to one another.
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