Goal Setting in the Australian Public Service: Effects on Psychological Empowerment and Organizational Citizenship Behavior.
Do specific and difficult job goals have a positive, negative, or negligible effect on higher levels of performance in the form of organizational citizenship behavior ( OCB) among government employees? Importantly, how do they influence OCB: directly and/or indirectly through psychological empowerme...
| Publicado en: | Public Administration Review Vol. 73; no. 3; pp. 453 - 465 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
May/Jun2013
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