Employee involvement and participation: Developing the concept of institutional embeddedness using WERS2004

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2150-2168

  Cox, Annette ^a   Marchington, Mick ^b   Suter, Jane ^c  

^a Institute for Employment Studies   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Employee involvement; Job satisfaction; Line managers; Organisational commitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350763792     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190903178104     Document Type: Article

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