A qualitative approach to assessing work ability.
PROBLEM: We often need to be able to assess the extent to which individuals have or lack work ability. For this we need instruments. Most of the instruments available have flaws. They either lack validity or they use roundabout methods when collecting information about the individual's work ability....
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 393 - 405 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2013
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