Best value and workplace partnership in local government

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 713-728

  Richardson, Mike ^a   Tailby, Stephanie ^a   Danford, Andrew ^a   Stewart, Paul ^a   Upchurch, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Employee involvement; Partnership; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444447373     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510623484     Document Type: Article

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