Pay fairness and intrinsic motivation: the role of pay transparency

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 4283-4300

  Hartmann, Frank ^a   Slapničar, Sergeja ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

distributive justice; fairness heuristic theory; intrinsic motivation; pay transparency; procedural justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865360923     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2012.664962     Document Type: Article

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