Predicting conflict management based on organizational commitment and selected demographic variables

Asia Pacific Education Review

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 321-336

  Balay, Refik ^a  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conflict management; Organizational commitment; Primary school teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949108952     PISSN: 15981037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03029266     Document Type: Article

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