Re-visiting the Nordic Approaches to Work Re-organization and Job Redesign: Lessons for UK skills policy

Policy Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 205-225

  Payne, Jonathan ^a   Keep, Ewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 1842666902     PISSN: 01442872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144287042000216108     Document Type: Review

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