The dimensions of politics perceptions and their organizational and individual predictors

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 1760-1797

  Fedor, Donald ^b   Ferris, Gerald R ^a   Harrell Cook, Gloria ^a   Russ, Gail S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Univ of Illinois at Urbana C ^*

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EID: 0032187288     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1998.tb01345.x     Document Type: Article

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