Want to, need to, ought to: Employee commitment to organizational change

Journal of Organizational Change Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-52

  Parish, Janet Turner ^a   Cadwallader, Susan ^b   Busch, Paul ^c  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change management; Employee attitudes; Job satisfaction; Organizational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949162225     PISSN: 09534814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09534810810847020     Document Type: Article

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