Attitudes of new appointees to accounting and finance departments in the higher education sector

British Accounting Review

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 193-220

  Duff, A ^a   Monk, E A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job dissatisfaction; Motivation; Psychological contract; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745015494     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2005.10.005     Document Type: Article

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