Secrets of the beehive: Performance management in university research organizations

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1439-1460

  Sousa, Célio A A ^a,b   de Nijs, Willem F ^b   Hendriks, Paul H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF MAIA   (Portugal)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

academic research organizations; agency; ambivalence; human resource management; negotiation; performance management; professionals

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956410643     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709357083     Document Type: Article

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