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Workers' attributions of responsibility within their organization and the relationship between the workers' self-attributions and their supervisors' ratings of actual behavior were investigated in the present study (N= 540 persons). It was found that workers' self-attributions of responsibility for specific kinds of work activities or obligations were related to the degree of their psychological distance from these various obligations. In general, the self-attributions of responsibility made by workers were weaker than were the supervisors' ratings of the workers' responsibility. Also, the degree of agreement between the workers' attributions and the supervisors' ratings of their performance varied according to the workers' degree of psychological remoteness from the particular obligations.

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Attribution of Responsibility and Organizational Behavior

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