Explaining Employment Relationships With Social Exchange and Job Embeddedness

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 277-297

  Hom, Peter W ^a   Tsui, Anne S ^a   Wu, Joshua B ^b   Lee, Thomas W ^c   Zhang, Ann Yan ^d   Fu, Ping Ping ^e   Li, Lan ^f  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^f China Entrepreneur Survey System   (China)

Author keywords

China; employee turnover; job embeddedness; social exchange

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE PLANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL TURNOVER;

EID: 63149131564     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013453     Document Type: Article

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