Development and validation of the work effort scale

European Journal of Psychological Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 266-273

  De Cooman, Rein ^a   De Gieter, Sara ^a   Pepermans, Roland ^a   Jegers, Marc ^a   Van Acker, Frederik ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Performance; Reliability; Validity; Work effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449372258     PISSN: 10155759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759.25.4.266     Document Type: Article

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