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The motivational nature of the critical systems operator job: expanding the job characteristics model with relationships

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 68 - 77

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-959-9

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D. Harrison McKnight	Information and Mgmt. Sciences Department, Florida State University-COB, Tallahassee, FL
Norman L. Chervany	Information & Decision Sciences Department, University of Minnesota-CSOM, Minneapolis, MN

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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