Acculturation strategies among ethnic minority workers and the role of intercultural personality traits

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 561-575

  Luijters, Kyra ^a   van der Zee, Karen I ^a   Otten, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acculturation at work; Diversity; Dual identity; Emotional stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749614549     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206067554     Document Type: Article

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