Empowerment and Performance

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2004

Volumn 19, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-46

  Wall, Toby D ^a   Wood, Stephen J ^a   Leach, Desmond J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empowerment and performance; Organizational empowerment; Psychological empowerment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960303462     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470013311.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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