Importance of personality and job-specific affect for predicting job attitudes and withdrawal behavior

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 300-325

  LeBreton, James M ^a,d   Binning, John F ^b,c   Adorno, Anthony J ^c,e   Melcher, Kathleen M ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DeGarmo Group

^d Marygrove College   (United States)

^e DeGarmo Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance analysis; Job attitudes; Relative importance; Trait based personality constructs

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042520409     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428104266015     Document Type: Review

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