Performance failure: Executive response to self-serving bias

Henry P. Sims; Dennis A. Gioia

doi:10.1016/0007-6813(84)90078-8

Performance failure: Executive response to self-serving bias

Henry P. Sims, Dennis A. Gioia

Management and Organization

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Are your employees happy to take credit for their successes and just as happy to blame outside factors for their failures? This phenomenon, called self-serving bias, has several causes, but managers can learn how to deal with it.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	64-71
Number of pages	8
Journal	Business Horizons
Volume	27
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0007-6813(84)90078-8
State	Published - 1984

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Business and International Management
Marketing

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