Individual difference and job performance: The relationships among personal factors, job characteristics, flow experience, and service quality

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 531-552

  Kuo, Tsung Hsien ^a   Ho, Li An ^b  

^a Securities and Futures Institute   (Taiwan)

^b TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flow experience; Gender; Job characteristic; Length of employment; Meditation; Service quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953482542     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2010.38.4.531     Document Type: Article

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