Predictors of job satisfaction among IT graduates in offshore outsourced IT firms

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-431

  Wickramasinghe, Vathsala ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Gender; Job satisfaction; Sri Lanka

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349614392     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910956355     Document Type: Article

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