The role of overload on job attitudes, turnover intentions, and salesperson performance

Journal of Business Research

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 663-671

  Jones, Eli ^a   Chonko, Lawrence ^b   Rangarajan, Deva ^c   Roberts, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VLERICK BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Job attitude; Job satisfaction; Role overload; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248526069     PISSN: 01482963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2007.02.014     Document Type: Article

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