Employee reactions to pay dispersion: A typology of existing research

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 53-66

  Downes, Patrick E ^a   Choi, Daejeong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Legitimacy perceptions of pay; Pay dispersion; Pay structure; Pay variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898918295     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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