Economic Theories of Middle Management: Monitoring, Communication, and the Middle Manager’s Dilemma.  

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Itoh, Hideshi ; Moriya, Fumitoshi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 7 no. 4 (2010), page 5-22.
Topik: Economic Theories; Middle Management; Monitoring; Communication; Middle Manager’s Dilemma.

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ134.7 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This article aims at summarizing several organizational functions of middle management, and clarifying their tradeoffs. Setting up and analyzing a simple model of a top, a middle, and a bottom manager, we show the following results: (i) middle management benefits the organization only if the middle manager has higher information gathering capabilities than the top, as well as serving to have effective monitoring and communication functions; and (ii) more communication from the middle to the top is not necessarily desirable for the organization, because of its detrimental effect on the bottom. Result (ii) arises from a tradeoff between communication and incentives: While more communication improves project implementation by the top, it discourages the bottom to take the initiatives to find and propose a new project. We then discuss how our results are related to important features of stylized Japanese management.

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