The role of personality in employee developmental networks

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 653-669

  Dougherty, Thomas W ^a   Cheung, Yu Ha ^b   Florea, Liviu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c WASHBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee development; Mentoring; Personality; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749084063     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940810894738     Document Type: Review

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