ESOPs and employee attitudes:The importance of empowerment and financial value

Personnel Review

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-26

  Gamble, John E ^a   Culpepper, Robert ^b   Blubaugh, Meg G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^b STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees; Empowerment; Involvement; Job satisfaction; Stock ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036014186     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480210412391     Document Type: Article

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