Evaluating the psychometric properties of Allen and Meyer's organizational commitment scale: A cross cultural application among Malaysian academic librarians

Malaysian Journal of Library and Information Science

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-101

  Karim, Noor Harun Abdul ^a   Mohammd Noor, Noor Hasrul Nizan ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Academic libraries; Affective commitment; Allen and Meyer's organizational commitment scale; Continuance commitment; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649740111     PISSN: 13946234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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