Job Control and Reward : Effects on Well-Being

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Siegrist, Johannes ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employees' performance; Ill health; Occupational diseases; Organizational characteristics; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923605722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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