The feasibility of single-item measures for organizational justice

Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 237-257

  Jordan, Jeremy S ^a,c   Turner, Brian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organizational justice; Reliability; Scale development; Single item measures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; SINGLE ITEM MEASURE; VALIDITY;

EID: 54049117995     PISSN: 1091367X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10913670802349790     Document Type: Article

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