The importance of employee participation and perceptions of changes in procedures in a teamworking intervention

Work and Stress

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 91-111

  Nielsen, Karina ^a   Randall, Raymond ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

intervention; organizational change; participation; process evaluation; teamwork; theories in use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861887256     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2012.682721     Document Type: Article

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