Rethinking participative decision making: A refinement of the propensity for participative decision making scale

Personnel Review

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 523-535

  Parnell, John A ^a   Crandall, William ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^b Business Administration and Division of Business and Economics   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Managers; Participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844285460     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005937     Document Type: Article

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