Organizational tenure and job performance

Journal of Management

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1220-1250

  Ng, Thomas W H ^a   Feldman, Daniel C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Job performance; Meta analysis; Organizational tenure; Productivity; Seniority

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955191529     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206309359809     Document Type: Article

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