The construct of career success: measurement issues and an empirical example;Das Konstrukt des Berufserfolgs: Messmethoden und ein empirisches Beispiel

Zeitschrift fur Arbeitsmarktforschung

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 195-206

  Abele, Andrea E ^a   Spurk, Daniel ^a   Volmer, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interplay between objective and subjective success in different fields of employment; Objective vs. subjective career success; Self referent vs. other referent subjective success

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975223412     PISSN: 18678343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12651-010-0034-6     Document Type: Article

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