Organizational commitment to employees and organizational performance: A simultaneous test of configurative and universalistic propositions

Personnel Review

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 867-886

  Roca Puig, Vicente ^a   Beltrán Martín, Inmaculada ^a   Escrig Tena, Ana B ^a   Bou Llusar, J Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Company performance; Employee relations; Human resource strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748859152     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480710822409     Document Type: Article

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