Using employee gainsharing plans to improve organizational effectiveness

Benchmarking

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 250-259

  Roy, Matthew H ^a   Dugal, Sanjiv S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Gainsharing; Organizational effectiveness; Stakeholder analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444456677     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770510600366     Document Type: Article

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