Workforce agility through employee involvement

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1011-1021

  Sumukadas, Narendar ^a   Sawhney, Rajeev ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^b WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); EMPOWERMENT OF PERSONNEL; JOB SATISFACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT; POWER SHARING; WORKFORCE AGILITY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 4444219653     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170490500997     Document Type: Article

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