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Measurement and Impact of Organizational Stress

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In a national survey of the problems of middle management in industry in the Netherlands that concluded with the 1978 report “Middenkader en Stress” (6) one of the aims was to measure stress at the middle management level, as well as at the levels surrounding middle management, to be able to make comparisons between functions.

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van Dijkhuizen, N. (1981). Measurement and Impact of Organizational Stress. In: Siegrist, J., Halhuber, M.J. (eds) Myocardial Infarction and Psychosocial Risks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67835-6_4

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