Building task cohesion to bring teams together

Quality Progress

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 49-53

  Knouse, Stephen B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b ASQ ^*

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