Job attitudes and employee engagement: Considering the attitude "A-factor"

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 43-61

  Newman, Daniel A ^a   Joseph, Dana L ^a   Hulin, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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