The moderating effect of perceived job characteristics on the proactive personality-organizational citizenship behavior relationship

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 724-740

  Liguori, Eric W ^a   McLarty, Benjamin D ^b   Muldoon, Jeffrey ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Meaning; OCB; Proactive personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885448844     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/LODJ-01-2012-0014     Document Type: Article

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