Emotional labour and successful ageing in the workplace among older Chinese employees

Ageing and Society

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1036-1051

  Cheung, Francis ^a   Wu, Anise M S ^b  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

emotional labour; job satisfaction; successful ageing in the workplace

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; ELDERLY POPULATION; LABOR; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKPLACE;

CHINA; HONG KONG;

EID: 84880906312     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: 14691779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12000414     Document Type: Article

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