Some suggestions for mapping organizational members' sense of fit

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 555-570

  Billsberry, Jon ^a,c   Ambrosini, Véronique ^b   Moss Jones, John ^a   Marsh, Philip ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causal mapping; Person organization fit; Storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644445294     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-005-4526-2     Document Type: Article

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