How to satisfy and retain personnel despite job-market shortage: Multilevel predictors of nurses' job satisfaction and intent to leave

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 13-24

  Roulin, Nicolas ^a   Mayor, Eric ^b   Bangerter, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intent to leave; Job satisfaction; Multilevel analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891807736     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185/a000123     Document Type: Article

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