Measuring trust inside organisations

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 557-588

  Dietz, Graham ^a   Den Hartog, Deanne N ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Organizations; Trust; Workplace

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748314517     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610682299     Document Type: Article

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