Organizational justice and employee satisfaction in performance appraisal

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 826-840

  Palaiologos, Anastasios ^a   Papazekos, Panagiotis ^a   Panayotopoulou, Leda ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Employee satisfaction; Justice; Organizational justice; Perceived purposes; Performance appraisal

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053338849     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090591111168348     Document Type: Article

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