Concluding comments: Distilling the elements of successful organizational intervention implementation

Improving Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Addressing Process and Context

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 353-361

  Karanika Murray, Maria ^a   Biron, Caroline ^b   Cooper, Cary L ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84920537635     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203723494     Document Type: Chapter

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