Empirical validation of the team work engagement construct

Journal of Personnel Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1 A, 2014, Pages 34-45

  Costa, Patrícia ^a   Passos, Ana Margarida ^a   Bakker, Arnold ^b  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Collective constructs; Confirmatory factor analysis; Team work engagement; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894103480     PISSN: 18665888     EISSN: 21905150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1866-5888/a000102     Document Type: Article

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