Organizations are faced with the challenge of developing effective reward systems for a diverse workforce within a society, as well as across different cultures for global operations. Equity theory is a major process motivational model concerned with such reward systems, and equity sensitivity...

Purpose – This paper emphasizes that employee attributional processing is a vital element in understanding employee aggression in organizations. The purpose of this paper is to summarize attributional perspectives and integrate recent theoretical advances into a comprehensive model....

The ways of coping with a boss in the everyday work situation are discussed. Selecting a strategy to enable problems to be tackled effectively – i.e. quit and run or change jobs within the organisation, are evaluated, in the face of a boss who criticises, or who never offers encouragement.