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Salas‐Vallina et al. (2020), Human Resource Management

The challenge of increasing employees' well‐being and performance: How human resource management practices and engaging leadership work together toward reaching this goal

Middle managers' engaging leadership went with more genuine implementation of well-being-oriented HRM and was directly linked to employee performance.

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