论雇佣契约中的自由处量权

On Independent Processing Right in Employment Contracts

雇佣契约中的自由处量权是指由契约规定的雇员自主处理事务的权力。有关自由处量权的约定是雇佣契约中的重要构成部分,但科斯的企业理论并未在交易成本框架内讨论这个问题,而另一些研究则将其归因于监督成本的存在。从不确定性条件下契约的效率出发,演绎得出自由处量权的范围不仅与监督成本有关,还与让雇员自由处理这些事务将具有更高的效率相关,且后者可能是确定其边界的主导性因素。

The independent processing right in employment contracts refers to the employee＇s right to handle affairs on his own as stipulated in the contracts.Terms concerning the employee＇s independent processing right are an important part of employment contracts;however,Coase＇s theory of the firm did not discuss this issue within the framework of transaction costs while some other researchers attributed it to the existence of monitoring costs.Proceeding from efficiency of contracts under indeterminate conditions,this paper argues that the scope of independent processing right is not only associated with supervising costs,but also with the higher processing efficiency of employees which might be the predominant factor in determining the scope bounds.