“The scourge of the workplace”: depression at work
Pamela R. Johnson
(Department of Management, California State University, Chico, California, USA)
Julie Indvik
(Department of Management, California State University, Chico, California, USA)
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Abstract
Depression strikes some 10 million US workers every year, costing US businesses as much as $43 billion annually in lost productivity and absenteeism. When people are depressed, they act out this depression in different ways. Men tend to “explode”, and women tend to “implode”. Looks at the causes of depression in the workplace, the costs to US businesses, and the training managers need to help their employees as well as their organizations.
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Citation
Johnson, P.R. and Indvik, J. (1997), "“The scourge of the workplace”: depression at work", Journal of Workplace Learning, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 12-16. https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629710160403
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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