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Performance failure: Executive response to self-serving bias

Business HorizonsPublished 1 January 1984
Henry P. Sims, Dennis A. Gioia
Citations13
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score2.28
SNIP2.56

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Decision SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting