What can occupational stress diaries achieve that questionnaires can't?

Personnel Review

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 684-700

  Clarkson, Gail P ^a   Hodgkinson, Gerard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditions of employment; Higher education; Qualitative research; Service industries; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548245447     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480710773990     Document Type: Article

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