The many faces of pay variation

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 100-115

  Gupta, Nina ^a   Conroy, Samantha A ^a   Delery, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Pay dispersion; Pay range; Pay strategy; Pay structure; Pay variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859881722     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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