Personality, motivation and job satisfaction: Hertzberg meets the Big Five

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 765-779

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Eracleous, Andreas ^a   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Motivation (psychology); Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949128587     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940910996789     Document Type: Article

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