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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2004
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262163
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Organizational structure and innovative activity
Sliwka, Dirk - 2003
A model is analyzed in which agents exert effort to create innovations within an organization. When payments are infeasible, the decision on the implementation of a proposal is shown to bemadeby simplemonotonic decision rules. A trade-off arises between the use of information and the incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005845884
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Control Aversion in Hierarchies
De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022
Companies typically control various aspects of their workers' behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers' ensuing reaction. In particular, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353391
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Control aversion in hierarchies
De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022
Companies typically control various aspects of their workers' behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers' ensuing reaction. In particular, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255629
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822649
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Delegated Job Design
Hvide, Hans K; Kaplan, Todd - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Why do firms delegate job design decisions to workers, and what are the implications of such delegation? We develop a … private-information based theory of delegation, where delegation enables high-ability workers to signal their ability by … delegation: when market observability of job content is high, the compensation needed to get low ability workers to self-sort is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123930
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Product-Market Competition and Managerial Autonomy
Ruzzier, Christian A. - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2009
It is often argued that competition forces managers to make better choices, thus favoring managerial autonomy in decision making. I formalize and challenge this idea. Suppose that managers care about keeping their position or avoiding interference, and that they can make strategic choices that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818697
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Executive Pay and Corporate Financial Performance. An Explorative Data Analysis
Schwalbach, Joachim; Graßhoff, Ulrike; Sperlich, Stefan - 1999
The relationship between executive pay and corporate financial performance con-tinues to attract wide academic, media and policy attention. The very high salariesenjoyed by senior executives in corporations primarily in the North American coun-tries are often contrasted with the relatively low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005843655
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2021
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318853
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
Sliwka, Dirk - 2006
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announced her beliefs that this subordinate contributes most to this task. We show, that those announced beliefs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027287