Loyalty to supervisor and trust in supervisor of workers in Chinese joint ventures: A test of two competing models

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 883-900

  Wong, Yui Tim ^a   Wong, Chi Sum ^b   Ngo, Hang Yue ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chinese management; Interactional justice; Loyalty to supervisor; Organizational citizenship behaviour; Performance; Trust in supervisor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346736619     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190210134264     Document Type: Article

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