Grievance management and its links to workplace justice

Employee Relations

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-109

  Nurse, Lawrence ^a   Devonish, Dwayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Administration of justice and law enforcement; Barbados; Demography; Grievances; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845457272     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450710714496     Document Type: Article

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