Job Performance Over Time Is a Function of Latent Trajectories and Previous Performance

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 217-224

  Zyphur, Michael J ^a   Chaturvedi, Sankalp ^a   Arvey, Richard D ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

cognitive ability; job performance; performance motivation; personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHARACTER; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTIVATION;

EID: 38949153432     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.93.1.217     Document Type: Article

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