Surviving repeated waves of organizational downsizing: The recency, duration, and order effects associated with different forms of layoff contact

Anxiety, Stress and Coping

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-329

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Psychological health; Resiliency survivors; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747644178     PISSN: 10615806     EISSN: 14772205     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10615800600901341     Document Type: Article

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