Individual and contextual correlates of managers' attitudes toward depressed employees

Human Resource Management

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 647-668

  Martin, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Employee mental health; Manager attitudes; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649472535     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20370     Document Type: Article

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