Who speaks up at work? Dispositional influences on employees' voice behavior

Personnel Review

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 666-679

  Nikolaou, Ioannis ^a   Vakola, Maria ^a   Bourantas, Dimitris ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Employee communications; Greece; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949151544     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480810906892     Document Type: Article

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