Economic booms exacerbate fundamental attribution error in work evaluations

• Main Author: SIROLA, Nina
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Growth and Development; Human Resources Management; Organizational Behavior and Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/5873; https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2016.11125abstract
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This research tested the idea that economic booms make people more likely to underappreciate contextual influences in work outcomes due to a higher generalized sense of the extent to which individuals have control over outcomes during times of prosperity. In Study 1, we tested this theory using data...