Personal Reputation
in Organizations
Gerald R. Ferris
Florida State University
Fred R. Blass
Florida State University
Ceasar Douglas
Florida State University
Robert W. Kolodinsky
James Madison University
Darren C. Treadway
Florida State University
For as long as we have been studying behavior in organizations, scholars have been interested in qualities, characteristics, and behaviors of individuals that contribute to their personal influence and effectiveness. Personal reputation is a construct that appears to incorporate such factors of individuals at work, and it seems worthy of serious scholarly attention by organizational scientists. Interestingly, and quite unfortunately, the notion of reputation has been virtually ignored as an individual-level focus of scientific inquiry and as a possible determinant of individual effectiveness in the management literature. However, we find that reputation has been
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Publication information:
Book title: Organizational Behavior: The State of the Science.
Edition: 2nd.
Contributors: Jerald Greenberg - Editor.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ.
Publication year: 2003.
Page number: 211.
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