Management, Student Value Edition Plus MyLab Management with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (14th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134639680
Author: Stephen P. Robbins, Mary A. Coulter
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15, Problem 7RDQ
Summary Introduction
To explain:
The major features of the attribution theory and the concepts of fundamental error related to it and self-serving bias.
Introduction:
The attribution theory has been developed to explain the way people are being judged in various different ways that is in accordance with the meanings that has been attributed to a particular behavior. When a person’s behavior is being observed, there is a tendency to think as to whether such behaviors are exercised intentionally or as a result of an external force.
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