Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality (ILR Press Books)

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Employees expect organizations to offer an equitable distribution of rewards in promotion, compensation, and job challenge to those who work hard. According to Sonia Ospina, the realities of the workplace confound that expectation, since organizational practices of labelling and ranking individuals create inequality. For this reason, Ospina suggests that an appreciation of how employees experience and resolve the contradiction between expectation and reality is prerequisite to understanding work attitudes in contemporary organizations.

Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

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Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality. (book reviews): An article from: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Katherine Farquhar
Manufacturer: University of Kansas
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, published by University of Kansas on April 1, 1997. The length of the article is 3134 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Illusions of Opportunity: Employee Expectations and Workplace Inequality. (book reviews)
Author: Katherine Farquhar
Publication: Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 1997
Publisher: University of Kansas
Volume: v7 Issue: n2 Page: p342(8)

Article Type: Book Review

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This thought-provoking study of Roman warfare, tactics, weapons and military life is spell-binding from the opening paragraph to Hugh Elton's closing remarks. A brilliant and definitive book, its sophisticated analysis of later Imperial age warfare is both accurate and innovative; Hugh Elton goes where few authors have before.

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WARFARE IN ROMAN EUROPE AD 350-425 OCM
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