Human Energy in Organizations: Implications for POS from Six Interdisciplinary Streams

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Spreitzer, Gretchen M ^a   Lam, Chak Fu ^a   Quinn, Ryan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; Fuel; Resources; Self regulation; Thriving

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924973520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199734610.013.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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