Perceiving and responding to job insecurity: The importance of multilevel contexts

The Psychology of the Recession on the Workplace

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 176-195

  Jiang, Lixin ^a   Probst, Tahira ^a   Sinclair, Robert R ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84890654714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4337/9780857933843.00020     Document Type: Chapter

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