An investigation of individual and contextual factors influencing training variables

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 159-174

  Chuang, Aichia ^a   Liao, Wen Chih ^b   Tai, Wei Tao ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CHIHLEE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interactional justice; Learning; Organizational justice; Self efficacy; Training motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044388285     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2005.33.2.159     Document Type: Article

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