Profiling Active and Passive Nonrespondents to an Organizational Survey

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1104-1114

  Rogelberg, Steven G ^a   Conway, James M ^b   Sederburg, Matthew E ^c   Spitzmüller, Christiane ^d   Aziz, Shanaz ^e   Knight, William E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^e EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; ORGANIZATION; RANDOMIZATION;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 0344197493     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.88.6.1104     Document Type: Article

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