Unwrapping the Organizational Entry Process: Disentangling Multiple Antecedents and Their Pathways to Adjustment

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 779-794

  Kammeyer Mueller, John D ^a   Wanberg, Connie R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; ORGANIZATION; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PERSONALITY; POLITICS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0141942087     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.88.5.779     Document Type: Article

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