Job and work attitudes, engagement and employee performance: Where does psychological well-being fit in?

Leadership & Organization Development Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-232

  Robertson, Ivan T ^a,b   Jansen Birch, Alex ^a   Cooper, Cary L ^c  

^a ROBERTSON COOPER LTD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee performance; Employees productivity; Engagement; Job and work attitudes; Personnel psychology; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860354550     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437731211216443     Document Type: Article

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