Employee empowerment and team performance: Autonomy, responsibility, information, and creativity

Team Performance Management

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 289-301

  Yang, Seung Bum ^a   Choi, Sang Ok ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees; Empowerment; Managers; Team performance; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349845536     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590910983549     Document Type: Article

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