The impact of organizational change on steelworkers in craft and production occupational groups

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1223-1248

  Bacon, Nick ^a   Blyton, Paul ^b   Dastmalchian, Ali ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change; Downsizing; Industrial relations; Job design; Occupations; Teamworking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955372092     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709356599     Document Type: Article

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