IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER: AN ATTRIBUTIONAL APPROACH TO INGRATIATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR.
研究指出奉承与组织公民行为相似，但主管会根据对员工额外行为的归因（奉承还是OCB）做出不同反应，动机归因影响主管对员工结果的决策。
This study's premise is that ingratiation and organizational citizenship behaviors are similar but that supervisors will respond differently to employees depending on whether they label their extrarole behaviors as ingratiation or as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Variables based on Kelley's covariation model did not greatly influence supervisory attributions. The attribution of motive, however, was related to supervisory decisions on employee outcomes.