Workplace interventions for occupational stress

The Individual in the Changing Working Life

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 419-441

  Kelloway, E Kevin ^a   Hurrell, Joseph J ^a   Day, Arla ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511490064.020     Document Type: Chapter

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