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Understanding and Improving Managers' Responses to Employee Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Angela Martin*
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania
Cynthia D. Fisher
Affiliation:
Bond University
*
E-mail: angela.martin@utas.edu.au, Address: The Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7000, Australia.

Abstract

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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2014

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