Occupational Role Development: The Changing Determinants of Outcomes for the Individual.
This research examined the development of an occupational role from one month before the role incumbent's graduation from training to five months into the first job. Kahn et al.'s (1964) theory of "expectation-generated role stress" provided a conceptual framework for the development of a causal mod...
| Publicado en: | Administrative Science Quarterly Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 396 - 419 |
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Administrative Science Quarterly
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