New challenges for human resource management: Readiness to perform a mobile job and its antecedents

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 600-614

  Otto, Kathleen ^a   Dalbert, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Collectivism; Flexibility; Mobility; Social norm; Uncertainty tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951240550     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585191003612109     Document Type: Article

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