A study on relationship among leadership, organizational culture, the operation of learning organization and employees' job satisfaction

Learning Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 155-185

  Chang, Su Chao ^a   Lee, Ming Shing ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Leadership; Learning organizations; Organizational culture; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947307638     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470710727014     Document Type: Article

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