Implications of maintenance and motivation factors on extension agent turnover

Journal of Extension

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Strong, Robert ^a   Harder, Amy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balancing work and family; Job satisfaction; Mentoring; Retention; Salary

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950618735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10775315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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