The Postulates of Expectancy Theory.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 September 1973
Orlando Behling, Frederick A. Starke
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This article reviews the basic expectancy formulation of work effort theory and touches briefly on some elaborations of it. It is pointed out that both the basic and elaborated versions rest on cer...
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