Job satisfaction and organizational commitment: Validating the arabic satisfaction and commitment questionnaire (ASCQ), testing the correlations, and investigating the effects of demographic variables in the lebanese banking sector

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1180-1202

  Dirani, Khalil M ^a   Kuchinke, K Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrument construct validation; International human resource development; Job satisfaction; Lebanon; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953176325     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.556801     Document Type: Article

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