The need for work: Jahoda's latent functions of employment in a representative sample of the German population

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-64

  Paul, Karsten I ^a   Batinic, Bernad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

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EID: 72449134852     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.622     Document Type: Article

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