Employee retention: Organisational and personal perspectives

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 195-215

  Kyndt, Eva ^a   Dochy, Filip ^a   Michielsen, Maya ^a   Moeyaert, Bastiaan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Employee retention; Learning and working climate; Learning attitude

Indexed keywords

EID: 71449101552     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-009-9024-7     Document Type: Article

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