Work ethic and academic performance: Predicting citizenship and counterproductive behavior

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 549-553

  Meriac, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Citizenship behavior; Counterproductive behavior; Work ethic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861775675     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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