Employee expectations: Perception of Generation-Y engineers in the UAE

2010 2nd International Conference on Engineering System Management and Applications, ICESMA 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shatat, Anas ^a   El Baz, Hazim ^a   Hariga, Moncer ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Employee satisfaction; Engineers; Generation Y; Millennials

Indexed keywords

BELONG TO; EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION; GENERATION Y; MILLENNIALS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE;

ENGINEERS;

ENGINEERING;

EID: 77956591414     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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