Healthy work for older workers: Work design and management factors

The Future for Older Workers: New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 121-137

  Griffiths, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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