Seeing the " forest" or the " trees" of organizational justice: Effects of temporal perspective on employee concerns about unfair treatment at work

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 17-31

  Cojuharenco, Irina ^a   Patient, David ^a   Bashshur, Michael R ^b  

^a CATÓLICA LISBON SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (Portugal)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Fairness; Organizational justice; Temporal perspective; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960841468     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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