Organizational justice and performance: Is appraisal fair?

EuroMed Journal of Business

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 280-293

  Rowland, Caroline Ann ^a   Hall, Roger David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Hall Consultancy   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fairness; Human resource management; Organizational justice; Organizations; Performance appraisal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885881179     PISSN: 14502194     EISSN: 1758888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14502191211265334     Document Type: Article

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