Improving employees' work centrality improves organizational performance: Work events and work centrality relationships

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-392

  Sharabi, Moshe ^a   Harpaz, Itzhak ^b  

^a Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

HRD; Life course effect; Longitudinal research; Work centrality; Work events

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014871063     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678868.2010.501960     Document Type: Article

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