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Job characteristics: their relationship to job satisfaction, stress and depression

Renier SteynGraduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, Midrand, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Naseema VawdaUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Pages 281-284 | Published online: 28 Oct 2014

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