The Link Between Participation in Management Decision-Making and Quality of Patient Care as Perceived by Chinese Doctors

Public Management Review

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1425-1443

  Liu, Chaojie ^a   Bartram, Timothy ^b   Casimir, Gian ^c   Leggat, Sandra G ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

affective commitment; Employee participation; empowerment; human resource management; patient care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942370053     PISSN: 14719037     EISSN: 14719045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2014.930507     Document Type: Article

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