Achievement motivation, expected coworker performance, and collective task motivation: Working hard or hardly working?

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 984-1000

  Hart, Jason W ^a   Karau, Steven J ^b   Stasson, Mark F ^c   Kerr, Natalie A ^d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 4944224976     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb02580.x     Document Type: Article

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