On Slipping When You Thought You Had Put Your Best Foot Forward: Self-Promotion, Self-Destruction, and Entitlements:
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Group & Organization Studies
- Vol. 10 (1) , 61-80
- https://doi.org/10.1177/105960118501000104
Abstract
The article comprises three studies that investigated the efficiency of an impression management tactic known as an entitlement. Partici pants read a brief scenario describing the work of a fictitious research team in all three studies. Study 1 manipulated whether the entitlement was verified by a third party; Study 2 manipulated whether consensus regarding the direction the research team had taken would affect the entitlement's efficacy, and Study 3 manipu lated whether a self-entitlement and an other-entitlement would be differentially effective. Results showed that the entitlement could increase and decrease ratings of the entitler; these findings were discussed in terms of their effect on perceptions of scenario selection, promotion, and organizational politics.Keywords
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