Organizational Screening: The ASSET Model

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Johnson, Sheena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASSET model; Normative data; Questionnaire; Stress measurement tool; Stress research

Indexed keywords

EID: 72149108846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.003.0007     Document Type: Chapter

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