S9 Ep12: Management under the spotlight

What type of manager would you be? An experiment in Ethiopia set out to measure the management traits of young professionals by setting them challenges in a video studio, and along the way also uncovered valuable (and surprising) information about the type of manager that employees and employers preferred. Simon Quinn of Imperial College London and CEPR and Tom Schwantje of Bocconi University were two of the researchers. They tell Tim Phillips about why it is important to develop better managers, and how we might do that for young professionals.

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S9 Ep12: Management under the spotlight is an episode from VoxTalks.

This episode is 20:13 long.

This episode was published on Feb 18, 2026.

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