Procedural justice and employee engagement: Roles of organizational identification and Moral Identity Centrality

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 681-695

  He, Hongwei ^a   Zhu, Weichun ^b   Zheng, Xiaoming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Employee engagement; Group engagement model; Moral identity; Organizational identification; Procedure justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879576701     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1774-3     Document Type: Article

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