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Loneliness, job satisfaction, and organizational commitment of migrant workers: empirical evidence from China

Sow Hup Chan Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau, Macau, P.R. ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Hua Han Qiu JinLi Case & Bag Co., LTD, Guangzhou, P.R. China
Pages 1109-1127 | Published online: 24 Mar 2011

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