Predicting Work Attitudes and Turnover Intentions Among Officers: The Importance of Adlerian Personality Attributes

Year 2010, Volume: 12 Issue: 2, 41 - 58, 01.06.2010

Justina Liesienė Auksė Endriulaitienė Loreta Bukšnytė Loreta Gustainienė Roy Kern

Abstract

Keywords

Adlerian lifestyle, BASIS-A, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, work motivation, turnover intention

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