How do organizations allocate rewards?: The predictive validity of national values, economic and organizational factors across six nations

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-18

  Fischer, Ronald ^a   Smith, Peter B ^b   Richey, Brenda ^c   Ferreira, Maria Cristina ^d   Assmar, Eveline Maria Leal ^d   Maes, Jürgen ^e   Stumpf, Siegfried ^f  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SALGADO DE OLIVEIRA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^e HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equity; Organizational justice; Reward allocation; Unemployment; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751428247     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: 15525422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022106295437     Document Type: Article

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