The employees' attitudes and their connections with the organisational culture in the process of change in the Estonian organisations

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-66

  Alas, Ruth ^a   Vadi, Maaja ^b  

^a ESTONIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Employee attitudes; Employee participation; Employee relations; Estonia; Organizational change; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249114821     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465260610640877     Document Type: Article

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