Connecting empowerment-focused HRM and labour productivity to work engagement: The mediating role of job demands and resources

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 192-210

  Van De Voorde, Karina ^a   Veld, Monique ^b   Van Veldhoven, Marc ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HRM; Job demands resources (JDR) model; Multi actor data; Multi level analysis; Work engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962750872     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 17488583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1748-8583.12099     Document Type: Article

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