Skeleton key or siren song: Is coping the answer to balancing work and well-being?

The Individual in the Changing Working Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 235-257

  Pienaar, Jaco ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490064.012     Document Type: Chapter

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