Does corporate social responsibility impact on employee engagement?

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 232-247

  Ferreira, Pedro ^a   de Oliveira, Elizabeth Real ^a  

^a Universidade Lusada de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Corporate social responsibility; CSR; Employee engagement; External CSR; Internal CSR; Utrecht Work Engagement Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900850663     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JWL-09-2013-0070     Document Type: Article

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