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WORK, INDUSTRIAL & ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Job embeddedness profiles: Associations with supervisor relations, job satisfaction, and work engagement

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Article: 2080322 | Received 11 Jun 2021, Accepted 17 May 2022, Published online: 25 May 2022

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