The Trauma Impact on Organizations: Causes, Consequences, and Remedies

International Handbook of Workplace Trauma Support

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 69-86

  Burke, Ronald J ^a  

^a Canadian Psychological Association   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catastrophic events; Deaths at work, from accidents; Financial costs of organizational disasters; Legal and business imperatives, in managing trauma; Organizational responses, internal or external acts; Organizational responsibility and liability; Organizational restructuring and downsizing; Organizational trauma; Suicides in workplace; Trauma on organizations, consequences and remedies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879836472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119943242.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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