How to Enhance Employee Voice Behavior Based on Game Theory

Manzhen Tang

Jinan University Management School, Guangzhou, China.

DOI: 10.4236/me.2015.63037                

Abstract

With the need of enterprise competition and development, the importance of the employee voice behavior is becoming increasingly apparent. Therefore, people pay more and more attention to employee voice behavior in the field of organization behavior. From the perspective of game theory, this paper has established a static game of complete information and analyzed the strategy selection between enterprise and the employee. Meanwhile, we take appropriate measures in order to achieve win-win development of enterprises and employees.

Keywords

Employee Voice Behavior, Static Game of Complete Information, Voicing Mechanism

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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