Employee empowerment: Extent of adoption and influential factors

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 574-599

  Baird, Kevin ^a   Wang, Haiyin ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Employees; Empowerment; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956083090     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011064154     Document Type: Article

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