This concept really resonates with me. I've often wondered how we create better mechanisms to allow for information to flow up and down the abstraction levels. Choice and conversation chartering.

Have you seen the concept of negotiated joining? I think the way that a new team member starts working with a team could be extended to new managers and employees as well.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0001839214557638