Employee surveys administered online: Attitudes toward the medium, nonresponse, and data representativeness

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-261

  Thompson, Lori Foster ^a   Surface, Eric A ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Surface Ward and Associates ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Internet; Nonresponse bias; Online personnel surveys; Survey response rates

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147128118     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428106/294696     Document Type: Article

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