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Employment Contracts, Influence Activities, and Efficient Organizational Design
Employment Contracts, Influence Activities, and Efficient Organizational Design
Journal of Political Economy.
1988, Vol. 96, Issue 1, Pages 42-60
Efficient employment contracts usually fail to compensate workers for the effects of posthir ing events and decisions when changing jobs is costly. Then, when the re are executives and managers with authority to make discretionary decisions, affected employees will be led to waste valuable time tryi ng to influence their decisions. Efficient organization design coun-t ers this tendency by limiting the discretion of decision makers, espe cially for those decisions that have large distributional consequence s but that are otherwise of little consequence to the organization.