Effects of the workplace social context and job content on nurse burnout

Human Resource Management

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 227-245

  Lee, Jenny S Y ^a   Akhtar, Syed ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Human resource interventions; Job content; Nurse burnout; Workplace social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953105545     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20421     Document Type: Article

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