Attitudes of demographic item non-respondents in employee surveys

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 146-160

  Borg, Ingwer ^a   Braun, Michael ^a   Baumgärtner, Miriam K ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Demographics; Employees; Germany; Job satisfaction; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 43849109016     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720810872703     Document Type: Article

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