Quality management systems as a link between management and employees

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-62

  Zelnik, Matej ^a   Maletič, Matjaž ^b   Maletič, Damjan ^b   Gomišček, Boštjan ^b  

^a Rolgraf doo   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Employee satisfaction; Leadership; Quality; Quality management system; Quality management system representative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859918738     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783363.2011.637781     Document Type: Article

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