Personality and attitudinal variables as predictors of voluntary union membership

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 333-347

  Parkes, Kathy R ^a   Razavi, T D B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extraversion; Government employees; Job satisfaction; Locus of control; Neuroticism; Organizational commitment; Union membership

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042541719     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2003.09.007     Document Type: Article

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