Perspective Taking: Building Positive Interpersonal Connections and Trustworthiness One Interaction at a Time

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Williams, Michele ^a  

^a Department of Organizational Behavior Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Empathic concern; Interpersonal connection; Perspective taking; Survey scale development; Trust; Trustworthiness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924943345     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0035     Document Type: Chapter

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