Decision-making training for occupational choice and early turnover: A field experiment

Career Development International

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-91

  Pazy, Asya ^a   Ganzach, Yoav ^a   Davidov, Yariv ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Instructional Systems Design Department   (Israel)

Author keywords

Career development; Decision making; Employee turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 31644445645     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430610642390     Document Type: Review

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