Keys to motivating tomorrow's workforce

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 181-198

  Latham, Gary P ^a   Ernst, Christopher T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Center for Creative Leadership   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Current motivation research; History of motivation research; Prediction of future; Work motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744540805     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2006.03.014     Document Type: Article

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