The influences of new employee development practices upon role stressors and work-related attitudes of temporary employees

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2268-2293

  Slattery, Jeffrey P ^a   Selvarajan, T T ^b   Anderson, John E ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

^c UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New employee development practices; Role stressors; Temporary employee attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849088657     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190802479512     Document Type: Article

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