Is the idea that someone might think that current managers are wrongly failing to listen to them, but if forced to listen, would accept good ideas and reject bad ones? That seems plausible, though the more irrational you think the current managers are in the relevant ways, the more you should expect your influence to be through control rather than contributing to the discourse. Overall this seems like a decent alternative hypothesis.
Is the idea that someone might think that current managers are wrongly failing to listen to them, but if forced to listen, would accept good ideas and reject bad ones? That seems plausible, though the more irrational you think the current managers are in the relevant ways, the more you should expect your influence to be through control rather than contributing to the discourse. Overall this seems like a decent alternative hypothesis.