Flexibility under complexity: Work contexts, task profiles and team processes of high responsibility teams

Employee Relations

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 322-338

  Hagemann, Vera ^a   Kluge, Annette ^a   Ritzmann, Sandrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contextual influences; Flexibility; Flexibility under complexity; High reliability organisations; High responsibility teams; Reliability management; Responsibilities; Team working; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860369894     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425451211217734     Document Type: Article

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