Voluntary retirement and organizational turnover intentions: The differential associations with work and non-work commitment constructs

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 297-309

  Schmidt, Joseph A ^a   Lee, Kibeom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Job involvement; Non work commitment; Occupational commitment; Organizational commitment; Retirement; Turnover; Work centrality

Indexed keywords

EID: 43649105291     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-008-9068-y     Document Type: Article

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