The impact of social context on the relationship between individual job satisfaction and absenteeism: The roles of different foci of job satisfaction and work-unit absenteeism

Academy of Management Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 353-382

  Diestel, Stefan ^a   Wegge, Jürgen ^b   Schmidt, Klaus Helmut ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 84900299821     PISSN: 00014273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5465/amj.2010.1087     Document Type: Article

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