Intraorganizational career advancement and voluntary turnover in a multinational bank in Taiwan

Career Development International

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 402-424

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Zhou, Xueguang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Banks; Career development; Employee turnover; Labour market; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649107423     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430810891446     Document Type: Article

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