Faith in supervision and the self-enhancement bias: Two psychological reasons why managers don't empower workers

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 313-321

  Pfeffer, Jeffrey ^a   Cialdini, Robert B ^b   Hanna, Benjamin ^c   Knopoff, Kathleen ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032345604     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324834basp2004_8     Document Type: Article

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