Limiting the brain drain: Determinants of employee organizational attachment in Lithuania

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-168

  Gaiduk, Roman ^a   Gaiduk, Julija ^b   Fields, Dail ^c  

^a Grand Partners Ltd   (Lithuania)

^b LCC International University   (Lithuania)

^c REGENT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee turnover; Lithuania; Organizational development

Indexed keywords

EID: 70149121263     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465260910958782     Document Type: Article

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