Robbing Peter to pay Paul: Feedback environments and enacted priorities in response to competing task demands

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 537-559

  Ashford, Susan J ^a   Northcraft, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Enacted priorities; Feedback environments; Performance; Task demands

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346499203     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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