Abuse of Authority and Hierarchical Communication
当管理者和下属资质相当时，组织可能用更高效的下属替换低效上级，这促使上级滥用人事权保护自己。本文论证“逐级汇报”制度能激励上级招募和培养优秀下属，并讨论其他防止权力滥用的方式。
If managers and their subordinates have the same basic qualifications, then organizations can benefit from replacing unproductive superiors with more productive subordinates.In response to this threat, superiors may deliberately recruit unproductive subordinates, or abuse their personnel authority in other ways, in order to protect themselves.We show that the common practice of requiring intra-firm communication to pass through a "chain of command" can be an effective way of securing the incentives for superiors to recruit and develop the best possible subordinates.We discuss alternative ways to prevent the abuse of authority and general implications of our analysis for organizational design.We also present supporting evidence from the literature on human resource management and organizational behavior.