Fit for the Future

Organizational Fit: Key Issues and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-18

  Kristof Brown, Amy L ^a   Billsberry, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

"general compatibility"; ASA model; Dyadic fit; Fit for the future; Misfit and attrition; Organizational fit; PE fit and flexibility; PE fit paradigm; Person group goal based fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888715436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118320853.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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