Erratum (DOI:10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.01.001);An exploratory field experiment of the effect of subconscious and conscious goals on employee performance

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-17

  Shantz, Amanda ^a   Latham, Gary P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conscious goal setting; Subconscious

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049119906     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2009.06.002     Document Type: Erratum

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