Contextual factors of psychological empowerment

Personnel Review

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 703-722

  Siegall, Marc ^a   Gardner, Susan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee communications; Empowerment; Performance; Supervision; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842638140     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480010296474     Document Type: Article

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