The relationship between quality management and health - Exploring the underlying dimensions

International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-123

  Lagrosen, Yvonne ^a   Bäckström, Ingela ^b   Lagrosen, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Employee health; Leadership commitment; Participation of everybody; Quality management; Total quality management; TQM; Values; Workplace health

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051999326     PISSN: 17466474     EISSN: 17466482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPQM.2010.030737     Document Type: Article

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