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Volume 20, Issue 3
1 March 1991
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Research Article| March 01 1991

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

John W. Hunt
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-6933
Print ISSN: 0048-3486
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Personnel Review (1991) 20 (3): 34–40.
https://doi.org/10.1108/EUM0000000000792

“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?

Keywords: Alienation, Managers, Stress, Human resource management, Personnel psychology
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