How career orientation shapes the job satisfaction-turnover intention link

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 151-171

  Tschopp, Cécile ^a   Grote, Gudela ^a   Gerber, Marius ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Kienbaum Consultants International   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Career orientations; Growth; Job satisfaction; Longitudinal data; Turnover intention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892979460     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1857     Document Type: Article

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