Organisational learning about depression in the workplace: a community of practice of silence and avoidance

Author/s: Lisa Davies

Edition: Volume 46, Number 1, April 2006

Summary: The economic and social impact of depression on the Australian workforce (Hickie 2002; Hawthorne, Cheok, Goldney and Fisher 2003) is only recently being acknowledged. In 2004 I undertook semi-structured interviews with people with human resource responsibilities in the deregulated sector of information technology in South Australia. The interviews focused on their accessibility to work-based education about depression and asked their opinions regarding the merit of such education.

Keywords: depression, Australian workforce, human resources, work-based education

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