Is compensation enough? Relational concerns in responding to unintended inequity

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-420

  Okimoto, Tyler G ^a   Tyler, Tom R ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental; Compensation; Distributive injustice; Relational concern

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347378345     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207078701     Document Type: Article

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