Supervisor and coworker support: A source congruence approach to buffering role conflict and physical stressors

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 3872-3889

  Mayo, Margarita ^a   Sanchez, Juan I ^b   Pastor, Juan C ^a   Rodriguez, Alfredo ^c  

^a IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

coworker support; physical stressors; role conflict; source congruence; stress; supervisor support

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864646981     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2012.676930     Document Type: Article

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