Transformational leadership and Taiwanese public relations practitioners' job satisfaction and organizational commitment

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-46

  Yang, Mu Li ^a  

^a CHANG JUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Organizational commitment; Public relations; Taiwan; Transformational leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930474974     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2012.40.1.31     Document Type: Article

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