Employee voice and organizational performance: Team versus representative influence

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-394

  Kim, Jaewon ^a   MacDuffie, John Paul ^a   Pil, Frits K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative management; Continuous improvement; Employee involvement; Employee representation; Employee voice; Industrial relations; Labor relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649330206     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709348936     Document Type: Article

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