Brief report: Organisational predictors of actual staff turnover in a service for people with multiple disabilities

Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 166-171

  Hatton, Chris ^a   Emerson, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3042948951     PISSN: 13602322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1998.tb00058.x     Document Type: Article

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