State work engagement: The significance of within-person fluctuations

A Day in the Life of a Happy Worker

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 25-40

  Xanthopoulou, Despoina ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology   (Netherlands)

^d American Psychological Society   (United States)

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EID: 84892167773     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203078990     Document Type: Chapter

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