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Workers as Whole People With Their Own Objectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Jennifer M. George*
Affiliation:
Rice University
Erik Dane
Affiliation:
Rice University
*
E-mail: jgeorge@rice.edu, Address: Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005
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