“It’s not like being at work”: A study to investigate stress and job satisfaction in employees of direct payments users

Developments in Direct Payments

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 189-204

  Leece, Janet ^a  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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