Electronic performance monitoring: An organizational justice and concertive control perspective

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 259-288

  Alder, G Stoney ^a   Tompkins, Phillip K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0000564549     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318997010003001     Document Type: Article

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