Not all that it might seem: Why job satisfaction is worth studying despite it being a poor summary measure of job quality

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1007-1018

  Brown, Andrew ^a   Charlwood, Andy ^b   Spencer, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

job quality; job satisfaction; subjective well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871495619     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017012461837     Document Type: Article

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