Implementing performance appraisal: Exploring the employee experience

Human Resource Management

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 879-897

  Farndale, Elaine ^a   Kelliher, Clare ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commitment; Employee perceptions; Line manager enactment; Multilevel analysis; Organizational climate; Organizational justice; Performance appraisal; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888022467     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.21575     Document Type: Article

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