Alienation among Managers: The New Epidemic or the Social Scientists’ Invention?

Abstract

“Crisis”, “suicide” and “burnout” – the disorders of the 1980s – but are they new or are they the same things with new labels? If there is an epidemic of such psychological disorders what can be done by the personnel function?

Citation

Hunt, J.W. (1991), "Alienation among Managers: The New Epidemic or the Social Scientists’ Invention?", Personnel Review, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 34-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000792