Organizational and Occupational Embeddedness of Federal Law Enforcement Personnel

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-89

  Johnson, Ashley E ^a,b   Sachau, Daniel A ^a   Englert, David ^c  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hogan Assessments   (United States)

^c Air Force Office of Special Investigations   (United States)

Author keywords

Job embeddedness; Military law enforcement personnel; Occupational embeddedness; Occupational identification; Organizational identification; Turnover intentions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873257570     PISSN: 08820783     EISSN: 19366469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11896-009-9063-x     Document Type: Article

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