Personality traits and career satisfaction of human resource professionals

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-366

  Lounsbury, John W ^a   Steel, Robert P ^b   Gibson, Lucy W ^c   Drost, Adam W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^c ECareerfitcom   (United States)

^d eCareerfitcom   (United States)

Author keywords

Career satisfaction; Holland's vocational theory; Personality traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956410263     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860802261215     Document Type: Article

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