Self-management competencies in self-managing teams: Their impact on multi-team system productivity

Leadership Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 687-702

  Millikin, John P ^a   Hom, Peter W ^a   Manz, Charles C ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Empowered teams; Multi team systems; Self management

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958172027     PISSN: 10489843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.leaqua.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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