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What Performance Management Needs Is a Good Theory: A Behavioral Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Donald A. Hantula*
Affiliation:
Temple University
*
E-mail: hantula@temple.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Temple University, Weiss Hall (265-67), Philadelphia, PA 19122

Abstract

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Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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Footnotes

The author thanks Nicole Gravina for her helpful comments on this manuscript.

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