The impact of individual and shared employee perceptions of HRM on affective commitment: Considering climate strength

Personnel Review

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 412-425

  Sanders, Karin ^a   Dorenbosch, Luc ^b   De Reuver, Renee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Human resource management; Job satisfaction; Organizational effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 45349083294     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480810877589     Document Type: Article

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