What does "commitment" really mean? Views of UK and Swedish engineering managers

Personnel Review

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 228-258

  Singh, Val ^a   Vinnicombe, Susan ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commitment; Engineers; Gender; Managers; Sweden; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842788547     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480010296014     Document Type: Article

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