Modalities of self-managing teams the "must, "may, "can" and "will" of local decision making

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 889-910

  Molleman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Learning; Self managing teams; Skills; Work design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034417149     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570010332935     Document Type: Article

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