Deciding on promotions and redundancies: Promoting people by ability, experience, gender and motivation

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-18

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Petrides, K V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experience; Gender; Motivation psychology; Promotion; Redundancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644551234     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683940610643189     Document Type: Article

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