Employee engagement, organisational performance and individual well-being: Exploring the evidence, developing the theory

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 2657-2669

  Truss, Catherine ^a   Shantz, Amanda ^b   Soane, Emma ^c   Alfes, Kerstin ^d   Delbridge, Rick ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

employee engagement; human resource management; performance; wellbeing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878651626     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2013.798921     Document Type: Editorial

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