Career anchors and disturbances in job turnover decisions - A case study of IT professionals in Taiwan

Information and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 309-319

  Chang, Christina Ling Hsing ^a   Jiang, James J ^b   Klein, Gary ^c   Chen, Houn Gee ^d  

^a National Pintung Institute of Commerce   (Taiwan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Colorado   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Career anchors; Job satisfaction; Job turnover; Social identity

Indexed keywords

CAREER ANCHORS; COMMON MODELS; GENERAL MODEL; IT PROFESSIONAL; JOB TURNOVER; KEY INDICATOR; QUALITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH MODELS; SOCIAL IDENTITY; WORK PLACE;

ANCHORS; JOB SATISFACTION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84869094259     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.im.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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