Worker control and workplace learning: Expansion of the job demand-control model

Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 533-548

  Weststar, Johanna ^a  

^a ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; LEARNING; MODELING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; WORKPLACE;

EID: 65649129308     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2009.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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