The role of feedback in Swedish human service organizations

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 245-268

  Pousette, Anders ^a   Jacobsson, Christian ^b   Thylefors, Ingela ^b   Hwang, C Philip ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Feedback; Human service organizations; Job satisfaction; Orga nizational commitment; Role ambiguity; Structural equation modeling (SEM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 23444438676     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1366880032000143447     Document Type: Article

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