Job Design and the Employee Innovation Process: The Mediating Role of Learning Strategies

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-191

  Holman, David ^a   Totterdell, Peter ^b   Axtell, Carolyn ^b   Stride, Chris ^b   Port, Rebecca ^c   Svensson, Ruth ^d   Zibarras, Lara ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Standard Chartered Bank   (Singapore)

^d KPMG   (Netherlands)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee innovation process; Employee learning strategies; Job design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861229077     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-011-9242-5     Document Type: Article

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