IT employee retention: Employee expectations and workplace environments

SIGMIS CPR'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-100

  Allen, Myria W ^a   Reid, Margaret F ^a   Armstrong, Deborah J ^b   Riemenschneider, Cynthia K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change; Employee manager knowledge; Gender; Job rotation; Retention; State government; Training; Work exhaustion

Indexed keywords

CHANGE; EMPLOYEE/MANAGER KNOWLEDGE; GENDER; JOB ROTATION; RETENTION; STATE GOVERNMENT; TRAINING; WORK EXHAUSTION;

JOB SATISFACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; ROTATION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 70349304966     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1542130.1542148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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