Work activities and stress among managers in health care

The Work of Managers: Towards a Practice Theory of Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arman, Rebecka ^a   Wikström, Ewa ^b   Tengelin, Ellinor ^a   Dellve, Lotta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Administration; Employeeship; Health care managers; Risk handling; Strategy; Stress patterns; Time use patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919724865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199639724.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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