Exploring the relative and combined influence of mastery-approach goals and work intrinsic motivation on employee turnover intention

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 622-638

  Dysvik, Anders ^a   Kuvaas, Bård ^a  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Employee turnover; Motivation (psychology)

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956082780     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011064172     Document Type: Article

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