Agency in organizational inequality: Organizational behavior and individual perceptions of discrimination

Work and Occupations

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Balser, Deborah B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

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EID: 0038282894     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888402029002002     Document Type: Article

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