A study on motivating employees' learning commitment in the post-downsizing era: Job satisfaction perspective

Journal of World Business

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-169

  Tsai, Philip Cheng Fei ^a   Yen, Yu Fang ^b   Huang, Liang Chih ^c   Huang, Ing Chung ^d  

^a WENZAO URSULINE UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES   (Taiwan)

^b National Kinmen Institute of Technology   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KAOHSIUNG   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Human capital; Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Organizational learning; Strategic human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147179406     PISSN: 10909516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jwb.2007.02.002     Document Type: Article

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