Causal inferences between participation in decision making, task attributes, work effort, rewards, job satisfaction and commitment

Leadership and Organization Development Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 399-414

  Scott Ladd, Brenda ^a   Travaglione, Anthony ^b   Marshall, Verena ^c  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decision making; Employee participation; Job design; Job enrichment; Job satisfaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748310804     PISSN: 01437739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437730610677990     Document Type: Article

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