The Impact of Discipline on the Use and Rapidity of Dismissal in State Governments

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-355

  Selden, Sally Coleman ^a  

^a Lynchburg College in Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

discipline; dismissal; involuntary turnover; termination

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249172517     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X06293145     Document Type: Article

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