IT Worker Turnover: An Empirical Examination of Intrinsic Motivation1

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Volumn 37, Issue , 2006, Pages 133-146

  Thatcher, Jason Bennett ^a   Liu, Yongmei ^b   Stepina, Lee P ^b   Goodman, Joseph M ^c   Treadway, Darren C ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Management techniques; Occupations; Staffing

Indexed keywords

EID: 76749098134     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1161345.1161361     Document Type: Article

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