In "the zone": The role of evolving skill and transitional workload on motivation and realized performance in operational tasks

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1130-1152

  Bendoly, Elliot ^a   Prietula, Mike ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee productivity; Human resource management; Motivation (psychology); Skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149130544     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570810919341     Document Type: Article

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