The winding road from employee to complainant: Situational and psychological determinants of wrongful-termination claims

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 557-590

  Lind, E Allan ^a   Greenberg, Jerald ^a   Scott, Kimberly S ^a   Welchans, Thomas D ^a  

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EID: 0034336980     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2667109     Document Type: Article

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