Goldratt's thinking process applied to employee retention

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 646-670

  Taylor III, Lloyd J ^a   Murphy, Becki ^b   Price, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN   (United States)

^b RehabCare Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Employees; Thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748706337     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610691055     Document Type: Article

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