Supervisor–subordinate guanxi is an emerging research area in assessing the link between superior and subordinate inside organization, due to its significance Chinese setting, this topic has become widely attractive. Yet, because concept still needs attention understand dynamics of guanxi, more on content, antecedents other expert opinions supervisor–subordinate required. In light literature re...

Introduction: The current investigations on Health Equity, primarily point to the harmful health consequences of being in a stressful social hierarchy. The repetitive nature of social conflicts seems to favor the induction of hyperalgesia or hypoalgesia both in rodents and humans, and it can also affect the immune system. In this study, the effects of changes in social status on pain percept...

We investigate a supply chain decision problem that encompasses three challenges, which cannot be managed satisfactorily nowadays with computerized decision support: dynamic, islands of planning autonomy and hierarchically coupled planning goals. We combine the existing online optimization framework by a closed-loop optimization control circuit that allows a subordinate service centre agent to ...

On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations 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 lead to a self fulfilling prophecy as the reputation of...

The appropriate role of medical professionals in a hospital’s top management team is a controversial issue. Clearly, the medical director plays an important part in balancing medical and financial performance. It is perceived wisdom among medics that the medical director’s position should be strong and on an equal footing with the commercial director. Clinicians believe that relegating their re...

Research Summary In this article, we explore the effects of managerial monitoring on behavior subordinates tasked with search for alternatives in a complex environment. We argue that will lead to exhibit more than they would engage otherwise as try impress their superiors by exerting effort. test and confirm our hypothesis four laboratory studies total 444 participants. Our findings show distan...

Our research — building on experimental results of Cason and Mui (2007) — examines why a subordinate in a leader–subordinate relationship is willing to pay a cost to help prevent exploitation of another subordinate by the leader. Using a stylized game capturing essential features of the leader–subordinate relationship, Cason and Mui find that when the leader attempts to “divideand-conquer” the ...

A study of Commander's Intent (CI) in a Command and Control (C2) exercise was performed. The study focused on the performance of a brigade battle group. The highest commander and the battle commander, respectively, considered having transmitted CI to the subordinate commander in a distinct and clear manner. The brigade command considered having transmitted CI somewhat less clearly to their subo...