On becoming (un)committed: A taxonomy and test of newcomer onboarding scenarios

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1640-1661

  Solinger, Omar N ^a   van Olffen, Woody ^b,c   Roe, Robert A ^d   Hofmans, Joeri ^e  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c AMI Consultancy   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Latent class; Organizational commitment; Person centered; Process; Scenario; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888392963     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1120.0818     Document Type: Article

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