A trust-based approach to promote employees' openness to organizational change in Turkey

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 462-483

  Ertürk, Alper ^a  

^a Institute of Naval Science and Engineering   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Change management; Communication processes; Employee participation; Trust; Turkey

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749115098     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720810888580     Document Type: Article

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