"The good news about bad news": Feedback about past organisational failure and its impact on worker productivity
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contextual inference; feedback; failure; field experiment; meaning of work;JEL classification:
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
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- NEP-HRM-2018-02-26 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-PPM-2018-02-26 (Project, Program & Portfolio Management)
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