Factors Influencing Worker Morale: Evaluating Provider Demographics, Workplace Environment and Using ESTs

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 304-310

  Patterson Silver Wolf, David A ^a   Dulmus, Catherine N ^b   Maguin, Eugene ^b   Cristalli, Maria ^c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c Hillside Family of Agencies   (United States)

Author keywords

culture and climate; empirically supported treatments; Hillside Family of Agencies (HFA); worker morale; working environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876037997     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731513479143     Document Type: Article

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