Do types of organizational culture matter in nurse job satisfaction and turnover intention?

Leadership in Health Services

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-38

  Park, Jae San ^a   Kim, Tae Hyun ^b  

^a Korea Health Industry Development Institute   (South Korea)

^b GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee turnover; Job satisfaction; Korea; Nurses; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 76649144488     PISSN: 17511879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17511870910928001     Document Type: Article

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