Worker responses to teamworking: Exploring employee attributions of managerial motives

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 238-255

  Bacon, Nicolas ^a   Blyton, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Economic; Employee views; Human resource management; Institutional and cultural rationales; Political; Teamworking

Indexed keywords

EID: 12844256443     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958519042000311426     Document Type: Article

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