Seeking resources: Predicting retirees' return to their workplace

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 615-635

  Armstrong Stassen, Marjorie ^a   Schlosser, Francine ^a   Zinni, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Individual behaviour; Person job fit; Person organization fit; Resource theory; Retirees; Retirement; Unretirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865122107     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941211252455     Document Type: Article

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