When and why creativity-related conflict with coworkers can hamper creative employees' individual job performance

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 574-587

  Janssen, Onne ^a   Giebels, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coworker trust; Creativity related conflict; Job performance; Supervisory support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886380326     PISSN: 1359432X     EISSN: 14640643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359432X.2012.669524     Document Type: Article

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