The happy-productive worker thesis revisited

Journal of Happiness Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 521-537

  Zelenski, John M ^a   Murphy, Steven A ^b   Jenkins, David A ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Public Works and Government Services Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotions; Experience sampling; Happiness; Job satisfaction; Life satisfaction; Negative affect; Personality; Positive affect; Productivity; Quality of work life

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949158378     PISSN: 13894978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-008-9087-4     Document Type: Article

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