The internal career: An explorative study of the career anchors of information technology workers in nigeria

SIGMIS CPR'06 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 205-212

  Ituma, Afam ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career Anchor; Career Orientation; Careers; Developing countries; IT workers; Nigeria

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MARKETING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

CAREER ANCHOR; CAREER ORIENTATION; CAREERS; IT WORKERS; NIGERIA;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 33745832710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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