Context, socialization, and newcomer learning

Organizational Psychology Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-25

  Wang, Mo ^a   Kammeyer Muelle, John ^b   Liu, Yihao ^a   Li, Yixuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Human resource management; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940106993     PISSN: 20413866     EISSN: 20413874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2041386614528832     Document Type: Article

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