Workaholic, or just hard worker?

Career Development International

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 394-417

  Douglas, Evan J ^a   Morris, Robyn J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hours of work; Motivation; Personality; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747456677     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430610683043     Document Type: Article

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