Employee well-being in organizations: Theoretical model, scale development, and cross-cultural validation

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 621-644

  Zheng, Xiaoming ^a   Zhu, Weichun ^b   Zhao, Haixia ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee well being; Life well being; Psychological well being; Workplace well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947865151     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1990     Document Type: Article

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