We study how managers mitigate the negative impacts of environmental shocks. Pairing productivity data from a garment firm with granular measures of air pollution, we show that productivity suffers as a result of pollution shocks but that managers respond by reallocating particularly sensitive workers to improve worker-to-task matches, thus mitigating team productivity losses. Responses are smaller for more inattentive managers; these same managers are also least able to mitigate productivity declines. These patterns are confirmed by leveraging variation in opportunities for reallocation and comparing how close managers of differing attentiveness can get to the simulated production frontier by reallocating workers.

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管理和对工人生产力的冲击

我们研究管理者如何减轻环境冲击的负面影响。将来自服装公司的生产力数据与空气污染的细粒度测量相结合，我们表明生产力会因污染冲击而受到影响，但管理人员通过重新分配特别敏感的工人来改善工人与任务的匹配，从而减轻团队生产力的损失。对更不专心的管理者的反应更小；这些管理人员也最不能减轻生产力下降的影响。这些模式通过利用重新分配机会的变化和比较不同注意力的经理通过重新分配工人可以接近模拟生产前沿的程度来确认。