Assembling jobs: A model of how tasks are bundled into and across jobs

Organization Science

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 432-454

  Cohen, Lisa E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inhabited institutions; Job crafting; Job design; Organization of work; Process theory; Qualitative methods; Task assembly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877672060     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1110.0737     Document Type: Article

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