The Effectiveness of Self-Managing Teams: A Quasi-Experiment

Human Relations

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 13-43

  Cohen, Susan G ^a   Ledford, Gerald E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

self managing teams; self regulating teams; team effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84973715301     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679404700102     Document Type: Article

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