Perceived HRM practices, organizational commitment, and voluntary early retirement among late-career managers

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 895-915

  Herrbach, Olivier ^a   Mignonac, Karim ^b   Vandenberghe, Christian ^c   Negrini, Alessia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early retirement; HRM practices; Older workers; Organizational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149158783     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20321     Document Type: Article

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