Empowerment and team development

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 53-66

  Hut, Jacqueline ^a   Molleman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Development; Empowerment; Evaluation; Group dynamics; Models; Self managing teams

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002771142     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527599810214193     Document Type: Article

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