Turnover intention and preparedness for change: Exploring leader-member exchange and occupational self-efficacy as antecedents of two employability predictors

Career Development International

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 660-679

  Schyns, Birgit ^a   Torka, Nicole ^b   Gössling, Tobias ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Career development; Employee behaviour; Employee turnover; Job mobility; Job satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548987074     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430710834413     Document Type: Article

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