Bouquets, brickbats and blinkers: Total quality management and employee involvement in practice

Organization Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 799-819

  Wilkinson, Adrian ^a   Godfrey, Graham ^a   Marchington, Mick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Control; Empowerment; Industrial relations; Labour process; TQM

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000865353     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/017084069701800505     Document Type: Article

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