Organizational investments in social capital, managerial coaching, and employee work-related performance

Management Learning

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-85

  Ellinger, Andrea D ^a   Ellinger, Alexander E ^b   Bachrach, Daniel G ^b   Wang, Yu Lin ^c   Baş, Ayş Banu Elmadag̀ ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT TYLER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

commitment to service quality; human capital; investments in social capital; job performance; managerial coaching; organizational citizenship behavior; social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551718127     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507610384329     Document Type: Article

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