Moderators of the Relationship Between Person-Job Fit and Subjective Well-Being Among Asian Employees

International Journal of Stress Management

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-87

  Park, Hyung In ^a   Monnot, Matthew J ^a   Jacob, Annalyn C ^a   Wagner, Stephen H ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core self evaluation; Person job fit; Person organization fit; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952585228     PISSN: 10725245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021854     Document Type: Article

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