Protestant work ethic and worker productivity in a Mexican brewery

International Sociology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Firestone, Juanita M ^a   Garza, Raymond T ^a   Harris, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Blue collar workers; Cultural work context; Job performance; Multicultural organizations; Supervisor assessments; Worker behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 14844300137     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580905049908     Document Type: Article

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