Effects of goal setting on goal commitment, team processes, and performance

Psychology and Education

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 2-8

  Resick, Christian J ^b   Bloom, Arvid J ^a  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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