"high commitment" strategies: It ain't what you do; It's the way that you do it

Employee Relations

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 306-318

  Parkes, Carole ^a   Scully, Judy ^a   West, Michael ^a   Dawson, Jeremy ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee involvement; Job satisfaction; Line managers; National Health Service; Performance management; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247332302     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450710741775     Document Type: Article

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