The Construal of Person-Organization Fit during the ASA Stages: Content, Source, and Focus of Comparison

Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 143-169

  Van Vianen, Annelies E M ^a   Stoelhorst, J W ^a   De Goede, Marije E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ASA framework; Attitude behavior predictors; CLT and global personality; PO ASA source, and focus; Stage of PO; The need to fit to belong; Trait homogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888665727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118320853.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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