How can employee engagement be improved at the RRG Group? Part 1

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 265-269

  Evans, Cheryl A ^a   Redfern, David C ^b  

^a Group HR Officer at RRG Group   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Employee behaviour; Organizational performance; Perception; Performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954394985     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197851011057564     Document Type: Article

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