Mindsets and employee engagement: Theoretical linkages and practical interventions

Handbook of Employee Engagement: Perspectives, Issues, Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 218-228

  Heslin, Peter A ^a  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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