Personal initiative at work and when facing unemployment

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 88-108

  Lantz, Annika ^a   Andersson, Kin ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Employee behaviour; Job design; Redundancy; Self development; Task analysis; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349410747     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620910934807     Document Type: Article

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