The Effects of Goal Difficulty and Monitoring Frequency on Effort and Risk Taking Decisions
Description:
Management control systems perform a vital role in facilitating the accomplishment of organizational objectives. To effectively align the objectives of employees with those of the organization, firms balance multiple control mechanisms to encourage organizationally desired behaviors and discourage undesired behaviors. The purpose of my dissertation was two-fold. First, I assessed how changes in monitoring frequency influenced employee behaviors and the overall function of the management control…
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Date:
May 2014
Creator:
Shoemaker, Nikki L.