Cultural Variations in Individual Job Performance: Implications for Industrial and Organizational Psychology in the 21st Century

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2007

Volumn 22, Issue , 2008, Pages 235-264

  Bhagat, Rabi S ^a   Van Scotter, James R ^b   Steverson, Pamela K ^a   Moustafa, Karen South ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural variations; Environmental factors; Individual job performance; Organizational attitudes; Organizational psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948731892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753378.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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