Team design and stress: A multilevel analysis

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1265-1289

  Cruz, Kevin S ^a   Pil, Frits K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomy; control; demands; interdependence; job design; job rotation; multilevel; stress; team; teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052977871     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711409264     Document Type: Article

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