Working across the divide: Job involvement in the public and nonprofit sectors

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-133

  Word, Jessica ^a   Park, Sung Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Job design; Job involvement; Motivation; Nonprofit and public human resource management; Red tape

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549087612     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: 1552759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X09331619     Document Type: Article

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