Augmenting means efficacy to boost performance: Two field experiments

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-713

  Eden, Dov ^a   Ganzach, Yoav ^a   Flumin Granat, Rachel ^a   Zigman, Tal ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Expectancy; External efficacy; Field experiments; Means efficacy; Motivation; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950178866     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206308321553     Document Type: Article

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