Self-as-object and self-as-subject in the workplace

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 136, Issue , 2016, Pages 36-46

  Brockner, Joel ^a   Wiesenfeld, Batia M ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84989889641     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2016.06.005     Document Type: Article

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