Employee perceptions of empowerment

Employee Relations

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 354-368

  Greasley, Kay ^a   Bryman, Alan ^b   Dainty, Andrew ^b   Price, Andrew ^b   Soetanto, Robby ^b   King, Nicola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction operations; Employee participation; Empowerment

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544478144     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450510605697     Document Type: Article

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