Twenty Best Practices for Just Employee Performance Reviews: Employers can use a model to achieve performance reviews that increase employee satisfaction, reduce the likelihood of litigation and boost motivation

Compensation and Benefits Review

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-55

  Posthuma, Richard A ^a   Campion, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

organizational justice; performance reviews

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951848022     PISSN: 08863687     EISSN: 15523837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886368707312139     Document Type: Article

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