The influence of high-involvement human resources practices, procedural justice, organizational commitment, and citizenship behaviors on information technology professionals' turnover intentions

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 326-357

  Paré, Guy ^a   Tremblay, Michel ^a  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human resource practices; Information technology specialists; Organizational citizenship behaviors; Organizational commitment; Turnover intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249651817     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601106286875     Document Type: Article

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