Narrow personality traits and organizational attraction: Evidence for the complementary hypothesis

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-14

  Kausel, Edgar E ^a   Slaughter, Jerel E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applicant attraction; Assertiveness; Big Five; Imagination; Interactionist perspective; Narrow traits; Organization personality; Person organization fit; Recruitment; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449304295     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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