Present but sick: A three-wave study on job demands, presenteeism and burnout

Career Development International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 50-68

  Demerouti, Evangelia ^a   Le Blanc, Pascale M ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a   Hox, Joop ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Jobs; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349435960     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430910933574     Document Type: Article

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