Employee job search: Toward an understanding of search context and search objectives

Journal of Management

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-163

  Boswell, Wendy R ^a   Zimmerman, Ryan D ^a   Swider, Brian W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

job search; recruiting; turnover; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 83655164326     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311421829     Document Type: Review

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