How to improve work engagement?

Handbook of Employee Engagement: Perspectives, Issues, Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 399-415

  Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a   Salanova, Marisa ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

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