What you do for your team comes back to you: A cross-level investigation of individual goal specification, team-goal clarity, and individual performance

Human Performance

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 116-130

  Sonnentag, Sabine ^a   Volmer, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77951668405     PISSN: 08959285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08959281003622164     Document Type: Article

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