Subjective Performance Evaluation and Gender Discrimination

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 667-681

  Maas, Victor S ^a   Torres González, Raquel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b THR International Tourism Consultants   (Spain)

Author keywords

gender; performance appraisal; sex bias; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960720773     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-011-0763-7     Document Type: Article

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