Organizational socialization, career aspirations and turnover intentions among design engineers

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 424-441

  Bigliardi, Barbara ^a   Petroni, Alberto ^a   Ivo Dormio, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Career development; Employee turnover; Organizations; Socialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 26044472167     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437730510617645     Document Type: Article

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