The organizational empowerment scale

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Matthews, Russell A ^a   Michelle Diaz, Wendy ^a   Cole, Steven G ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Environmental impact assessment; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038327673     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310467624     Document Type: Article

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