Person-career fit and employee outcomes among research and development professionals

Human Relations

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1857-1886

  Cha, Jongseok ^a   Kim, Youngbae ^b   Kim, Tae Yeol ^c  

^a Hansung University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Business School   (South Korea)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Person career fit; Person environment fit; Research and development professionals; Work performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749096771     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709338638     Document Type: Article

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