Person-Environment Fit in Organizational Settings

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ostroff, Cheri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Levels of analysis; Misfit; Person environment fit; Person organization fit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925126391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928309.013.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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