Empowered self-management and the design of work teams

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 677-692

  Cooney, Richard ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Job design; Team working

Indexed keywords

EID: 19644400942     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410561556     Document Type: Review

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