Explaining employees' evaluations of organizational change with the job-demands resources model

Career Development International

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 594-613

  van Emmerik, I J Hetty ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b   Euwema, Martin C ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evaluations; Organizational change; Resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 71949091349     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430910997312     Document Type: Article

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