Social influence and the invocation of rights: The effects of accountability, reputation and political skill on legal claiming.
Issues relating to litigation and other forms of employee legal claiming are at the forefront of the practice of human resource management. However, organizational scholars have paid scant attention to this important aspect of organizational life. Underrepresented in this collective research have be...
| Publicado en: | Human Relations Vol. 69; no. 12; pp. 2250 - 2274 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Dec2016
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