Measuring poor job quality amongst employees: the VicWAL job quality index

Labour and Industry

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 103-123

  Charlesworth, Sara ^a   Welsh, Jennifer ^b   Strazdins, Lyndall ^b   Baird, Marian ^c   Campbell, Iain ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

job quality measurement; poor job quality; working conditions; workload; work life balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931270387     PISSN: 10301763     EISSN: 23255676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10301763.2014.915787     Document Type: Article

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