The other side of turnover: Managing IT personnel strategically

SIGMIS CPR'05 - Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 67-74

  Meland, Havard ^a   Waage, Rolf Retter ^a   Sein, Maung K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human Resources; IS personnel; Psychological contracts; Re recruitment; Theory of Planned Behavior; Turnover

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; PERSONNEL; PLANNING;

IS PERSONNEL; MARKET DYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTRACTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 29144458184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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