Forty-four manager and subordinate pairs reported the situation faced and decision process used in a recent decision. Evidence of the validity of the Vroom-Yetton (1973) model was found with manager data but not subordinate data. This difference may have been due to managers' and subordinates' different roles or to measurement difficulties. Future tests will be required to examine this problem
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Field et al. (1990) studied this question.