Employee Participation Through Non-Union Forms of Employee Representation

The Oxford Handbook of Participation in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kaufman, Bruce E ^a   Taras, Daphne G ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diversity; Employee representation; Indirect participation; NER; NER's performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923397707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199207268.003.0011     Document Type: Chapter

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