Job Burnout and Employee Engagement: A Meta-Analytic Examination of Construct Proliferation

Journal of Management

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1550-1581

  Cole, Michael S ^a   Walter, Frank ^b   Bedeian, Arthur G ^c   O'Boyle, Ernest H ^d  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

burnout; construct proliferation; construct redundancy; construct validity; engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859899088     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311415252     Document Type: Article

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