The effect of personality on IT personnel's job-related attitudes: Establishing a dispositional model of turnover intention across IT job types

Journal of Information Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 48-66

  Eckhardt, Andreas ^a   Laumer, Sven ^b   Maier, Christian ^b   Weitzel, Tim ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

big five; IT job type; IT workforce; job related attitude; personality; turnover intention

Indexed keywords

BIG FIVE; IT JOB TYPE; IT WORKFORCE; JOB-RELATED ATTITUDE; PERSONALITY; TURNOVER INTENTIONS;

JOB SATISFACTION;

EID: 84955467522     PISSN: 02683962     EISSN: 14664437     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jit.2014.27     Document Type: Article

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