Academics job satisfaction and job stress across countries in the changing academic environments

Higher Education

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 603-620

  Shin, Jung Cheol ^a   Jung, Jisun ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Academic profession; Changing academic environment; Job satisfaction; Job stress; New public management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925288082     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9668-y     Document Type: Article

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