Can employees exercise control over managers? The role of the employees’ knowledge of manager behavior and manager discretion

• Main Author: Yin, Huaxiang
• Other Authors: College of Business (Nanyang Business School)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Business::Accounting; Indirect Reciprocity; Employee-based Control; Information Policies; Discretion; Manager Type
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152668
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

I investigate whether organizations can use the "power of the employee" to reduce managers' opportunistic behavior toward others. I predict that revealing this behavior to employees makes managers less inclined to act opportunistically. Employees' knowledge has a stronger impact...