Defining and measuring work engagement: Bringing clarity to the concept

Work Engagement: A Handbook of Essential Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 10-24

  Schaufeli, Wilmar B ^a   Bakker, Arnold B ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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