Challenges to professional identities and emotional exhaustion

Career Development International

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-136

  Haines III, Victor Y ^a   Saba, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional exhaustion; Employees; Human resource management; Identities; Professional workers; Professions; Role salience; Stress; Work identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861304234     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620431211225313     Document Type: Article

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