Changes in personal work goals in relation to the psychosocial work environment: A two-year follow-up study

Work and Stress

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 289-308

  Hyvönen, Katriina ^a   Feldt, Taru ^a   Kinnunen, Ulla ^b   Tolvanen, Asko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

effort; effort reward imbalance; goal contents; managers; personal work goals; psychosocial work environment; reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858324933     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2012.630587     Document Type: Article

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