Todd R. Zenger, Why Do Employers Only Reward Extreme Performance? Examining the Relationships Among Performance, Pay, and Turnover, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, Special Issue: Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations (Jun., 1992), pp. 198-219
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