The Halo Effect: … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers

  • When told they had done well, people described their groups as having been hgihly cohesive, with better communcatio, more opennes to change, and superior motivation.  When todl they had performed poorly, they recalled  alack of cohesion, poor communciaiton, and low motivation (1) – page 54
  • Financial eprformance, measured by reutnr on assets and earnigns per share, has a more powerful effec ton employee satisfaction than the reverse… being on a winning team causes satisfcation (2) – page 75

References

  1. Causes of performance a general alternative interpreation of cross sectional research on organizations, The justification of organizatioanl eprformance, Attribution sof hte causes of performance a construcitve quasi-longitudinal replciation of the staq 1975 study
  2. Which comes first employee attiudes or roagnaiztioanl finanical and market performance