Causes and consequences of psychological contracts among knowledge workers in the high technology and financial services industries

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1152-1165

  Flood, Patrick C ^a   Turner, Thomas ^b   Ramamoorthy, Nagarajan ^b   Pearson, Jill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Knowledge workers; Psychological contracts; Value creation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012152987     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190110068368     Document Type: Article

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