Competing perspectives on the role of understanding in the politics perceptions-job performance relationship: A test of the 'antidote' versus 'distraction' hypotheses

Handbook of Organizational Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 271-285

  Hochwarter, Wayne A ^a   Kolodinsky, Robert W ^b   Witt, Lawrence A ^c   Hall, Angela T ^a   Ferris, Gerald R ^a   Kacmar, Michele K ^d  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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