Analysis of critical evaluation factors of the EWPS scale for boundary -- spanners using DEMATEL

Journal of Quality

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 73-90

  Chen, Hsuan Kai ^a   Lin, Shang Ping ^b   Lin, Tsai Ding ^c   Wu, Hsin Hung ^d  

^a National Taitung Junior College   (Taiwan)

^b Department of Accounting   (Taiwan)

^c TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Boundary spanner; Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory; EWPS scale; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BOUNDARY SPANNERS; BOUNDARY SPANNING; CRITICAL EVALUATION; DECISION MAKING TRIAL AND EVALUATION LABORATORIES; EWPS SCALE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; VOCATIONAL TRAINING;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84904647208     PISSN: 10220690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6220/joq.2014.21(2).01     Document Type: Article

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