Methodology for Assessing Worker’s Behavioral Opportunism in Russian Corporations

Modern corporations strive to find new tools to improve the efficiency of their activities. Traditional approaches aimed at reducing costs, modernizing production, improving the organizational structure are being rethought. One of the new directions in this area is increasing the productivity of corporation employees by stimulating their involvement and better motivation and reducing behavioral opportunism. There is a need for a methodology for assessing the level of behavioral opportunism, combining accuracy and simplicity, for analyzing the effectiveness of corporate culture development programs, and increasing employee motivation. At the same time, many different techniques are presented that meet these requirements only partially. The aim of the study is a comparative analysis of existing methods for assessing the behavioral opportunism of employees in a corporation and the proposal of an author's methodology that meets the requirements of accuracy and simplicity. The information base of the study is scientific publications devoted to the analysis of methods for measuring behavioral opportunism in a corporation. The study established the interdisciplinary nature of the problem of behavioral opportunism, summarized the methods for assessing forms of behavior relevant to behavioral opportunism from economics, sociology, and psychology, and gave a comparative description of them. An author’s method is proposed, an algorithm for its application is determined, and a model calculation of the method is carried out on the data obtained during a local economic experiment. As a result, the possibility and effectiveness of applying the author’s methodology to the analysis of behavioral opportunism of workers of corporations are substantiated