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Developmental Tendency and Empirical Analysis of Staff’s Boundaryless Career: Statistic Analysis Based on the Experience in China

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Boundaryles profession career is a new profession career era, which presents a dynamic, unpredictable and multi-directional development characteristics. In view of the practice of Boundaryless profession career development, we conducted a questionnaire survey and statistical sampling analysis and we applied statistical tools to conduct empirical analysis. The research reveals the current situation, characteristics and developmental trends of staff boundaryless career in China. The analysis is helpful for future expansion of existing theory of boundaryless career orientation, and provide some valuable suggestions and solutions.

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Tian, Z., Han, J. (2011). Developmental Tendency and Empirical Analysis of Staff’s Boundaryless Career: Statistic Analysis Based on the Experience in China. In: Wu, D., Zhou, Y. (eds) Modeling Risk Management for Resources and Environment in China. Computational Risk Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18387-4_46

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