When Employees Accept Responsibility for Good Performance but Deny Responsibility

question 96

Multiple Choice

When employees accept responsibility for good performance but deny responsibility for poor performance,they are demonstrating:

• A) the fundamental attribution error
• B) self-fulfilling prophecy
• C) projection
• D) self-serving bias

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