If you're close with the leader, you must be a brownnose: The role of leader-member relationships in follower, leader, and coworker attributions of organizational citizenship behavior motives

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 309-316

  Bowler, Wm Matthew ^a   Halbesleben, Jonathon R B ^b   Paul, Jeff R B ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attribution theory; Impression management; Organizational citizenship behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955427692     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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