A preliminary field test of an employee work passion model

Human Resource Development Quarterly

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-221

  Zigarmi, Drea ^a   Nimon, Kim ^b   Houson, Dobie ^c   Witt, David ^c   Diehl, Jim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c The Ken Blanchard Companies ^*  (United States)

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EID: 79959335557     PISSN: 10448004     EISSN: 15321096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.20076     Document Type: Article

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