The importance of policy in perceptions of organizational justice

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1587-1609

  Brown, Graham ^a   Bemmels, Brian ^b   Barclay, Laurie J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

contractual rules; fairness theory; organizational justice; policy justice; procedural justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957094066     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726710362273     Document Type: Article

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