Managers' reactions to implementing layoffs: Relationship to health problems and withdrawal behaviors

Human Resource Management

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 159-178

  Grunberg, Leon ^a   Moore, Sarah ^a   Greenberg, Edward S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b Department of Political Science ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 33745657508     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20102     Document Type: Review

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