Evaluating and rewarding OCBs: Potential consequences of formally incorporating organisational citizenship behaviour in performance appraisal and reward systems

Employee Relations

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 494-514

  Becton, J Bret ^a   Giles, William F ^b   Schraeder, Mike ^b,c  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TROY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource management research; Individual behaviour; Motivation (psychology); Performance measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349095597     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450810888277     Document Type: Article

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