Do you really need help? A study of employee supplication and job performance in China

Asia Pacific Journal of Management

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 541-559

  Lai, Jennifer Y M ^a   Lam, Long W ^a   Liu, Yan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Impression management; Social role theory; Supplication

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954689125     PISSN: 02174561     EISSN: 15729958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10490-009-9152-5     Document Type: Article

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