The effects of emotion-understanding ability and tournament incentives on supervisors’ propensity to acquire subordinate-type information to use in control decisions

• Main Authors: Wang, Laura W., Yin, Huaxiang
• Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Business::Accounting; Business::Management; Emotional Intelligence; Tournament Incentives
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/164096
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigate how emotion-understanding ability, a component of emotional intelligence, and tournament incentives jointly influence supervisors' propensity to acquire information about their subordinates' trustworthiness and tailor their control decisions to this information. We predict a...