The development of five scales to measure employees' appraisals of organizational-level stress management interventions

Work and Stress

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-23

  Randall, Raymond ^a   Nielsen, Karina ^b   Tvedt, Sturle D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Organizational level intervention; Process measurement; Scales; Work related stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449481060     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678370902815277     Document Type: Article

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