The relationship between employee knowledge, personal contact and attitudes towards chronically ill coemployees within the banking sector

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 871-888

  Kanengoni, Herbert ^a   Murugan, Chan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Chronic illnesses; Employee knowledge; Personal contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874245394     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2012.702318     Document Type: Article

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