Organisational ethics and employee satisfaction and commitment

Management Decision

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 677-693

  Chye Koh, Hian ^a   Boo, El'fred H Y ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Employees behaviour; Job satisfaction; Professional ethics; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992969540     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740410538514     Document Type: Article

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