Work ethic: Do new employees mean new work values?

Journal of Managerial Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 10-34

  Van Ness, Raymond K ^a   Melinsky, Kimberly ^b   Buff, Cheryl L ^c   Seifert, Charles F ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b College of Saint Rose ^*  (United States)

^c SIENA COLLEGE   (United States)

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