Linking capacities of high-quality relationships to team learning and performance in service organizations

Human Resource Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 455-477

  Brueller, Daphna ^a   Carmeli, Abraham ^a  

^a Faculty of Management Recanati Graduate School of Business   (Israel)

Author keywords

High quality relationships; Psychological safety; Service operation; Team learning; Team performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960802552     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20435     Document Type: Article

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