Personality Configurations in Self-Managed Teams: A Natural Experiment on the Effects of Maximizing and Minimizing Variance in Traits

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1701-1732

  Humphrey, Stephen E ^a   Hollenbeck, John R ^b   Meyer, Christopher J ^c   Ilgen, Daniel R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79960277108     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: 15591816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00778.x     Document Type: Article

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