A great many things to do and not a minute to spare: Can feedback from supervisors moderate the relationship between skill variety, time pressure, and employees' innovative behavior?

Creativity Research Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 384-393

  Noefer, Katrin ^a   Stegmaier, Ralf ^a   Molter, Beate ^a   Sonntag, Karlheinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 77951683247     PISSN: 10400419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10400410903297964     Document Type: Article

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