Within-Person Job Performance Variability Over Short Timeframes: Theory, Empirical Research, and Practice

We begin by charting the evolution of the dominant perspective on job performance from one that viewed performance as static to one that viewed it as dynamic over long timeframes (e.g., months, yea...

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  2020

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  2020-01-21

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  Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-012119-045350
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