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Racial and inter-racial differences in work capacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

K. Lange Andersen
K. Lange Andersen
Affiliation:
Statens Fysioterapiskole, Oslo
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Extract

Man's ability to perform his daily round of work is a complex matter and depends upon an optimal function of numerous organs and their integration. Intellectual ability, motivation and emotional stability play a great, and sometimes decisive, role in work performances.

Type
Physiological and psychological aspects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Biosocial Aspects of Race , 1969 , pp. 69 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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