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What is work good for? A positive organizational psychology perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2020

Jamie A. Gruman  and
Alan M. Saks
Jamie A. Gruman*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
Alan M. Saks
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
*
*Corresponding author. Email: jgruman@uoguelph.ca
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 448 - 450
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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2020

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