Older workers' motivation: Against the myth of general decline

Management Decision

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 894-906

  Stamov Roßnagel, Christian ^a   Hertel, Guido ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Older workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954236898     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741011053451     Document Type: Article

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