Ageing and work motivation: A task-level perspective

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 459-478

  Stamov Roßnagel, Christian ^a   Biemann, Torsten ^b  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ageing workforce; Employees behaviour; Human resource management; Older workers; Personnel management; Self regulation; Work motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863484021     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683941211235382     Document Type: Article

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