One Hundred Years of Employee Turnover Theory and Research

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Applied Psychology

• Publication date

  2017-01-26

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  Medicine, Business, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1037/apl0000103PMID 28125259
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