When stressors make you work: Mechanisms linking challenge stressors to performance.
Based on previous empirical findings, “challenge stressors” (Cavanaugh, Boswell, Roehling, & Bouderau, 2000; Lepine, Podsakoff, & Lepine, 2005), such as the amount and scope of responsibility, can be loosely considered as “good stressors” that are consistently and positively related to job satisfact...
| Published in: | Work & Stress Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 213 - 230 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul-Sep2015
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