After pain comes joy: Identity gaps in employees' minds

Personnel Review

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 419-437

  Park, Jin Suk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Human Resource Management; Identity gap; Organisational identification; Organisational identity; Qualitative; Sensebreaking; Sensegiving; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900427833     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/PR-01-2013-0001     Document Type: Article

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