Person-organization and person-supervisor fits: Employee commitments in a Chinese context

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 906-926

  Van Vianen, Annelies E M ^a   Shen, Chi Tai ^b   Chuang, Aichia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Commitment to the supervisor; Guanxi; Organizational commitment; Person organization fit; Person supervisor fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960281910     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.726     Document Type: Article

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