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International Perspectives on Stress & Coping
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Journeys Into Grief: Exploring Redundancy for a New Understanding of Workplace Grief

Pages 401-419 | Received 20 Aug 2008, Accepted 16 Oct 2008, Published online: 27 Aug 2009

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