A cross-cultural investigation into the relationships between personality traits and work values

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-32

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Petrides, K V ^b   Tsaousis, Ioannis ^c   Pappas, Konstantinos ^d   Garrod, Debi ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job motivation; Job satisfaction; Personality; Work values

Indexed keywords

EID: 14544303541     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: 19401019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JRLP.139.1.5-32     Document Type: Article

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