Engaged managers are not workaholics: Evidence from a longitudinal personcentered analysis

Revista de Psicologia del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 135-143

  Mäkikangas, Anne ^a   Schaufeli, Wilmar ^b   Tolvanen, Asko ^a   Feldt, Taru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job change; Person centered approach; Work engagement; Workaholism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898007250     PISSN: 15765962     EISSN: 21740534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5093/tr2013a19     Document Type: Article

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