The marginal temp syndrome: Predicting job performance and counterproductive behaviors

Current Topics in Management

Volumn 10, Issue , 2018, Pages 161-172

  Posthuma, Richard A ^a   Campion, Michael A ^b   Vargas, Amber L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

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