Will They Stay or Will They Go? Exploring a Customer-Oriented Approach To Employee Retention

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-217

  Cardy, Robert L ^a   Lengnick Hall, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer equity; Employee equity; Employee retention; Voluntary turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956160417     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-011-9223-8     Document Type: Article

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