Work engagement: Introduction

Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-9

  Leiter, Michael P ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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