High aspirations: Differences in employee satisfaction between university faculty and staff

Applied Research in Quality of Life

Volumn 1, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 315-322

  Horton, Susan ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aspirations; Employee satisfaction; Faculty; University staff; Working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249864506     PISSN: 18712584     EISSN: 18712576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11482-007-9023-5     Document Type: Article

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