Measuring staff empowerment: Development of a worker empowerment scale

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 212-222

  Leslie, Donald R ^a   Holzhalb, Carol M ^b   Holland, Thomas P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 21944440314     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/104973159800800205     Document Type: Article

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