The Challenges of Developing, Implementing, and Evaluating Interventions

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Well Being

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Noblet, Andrew J ^a   LaMontagne, Anthony D ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation cycle; Implementation; Organizational interventions; Program planning; Well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874123251     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199211913.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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