Managing the empowerment of employees to address issues of inter-employee co-operation, communication and work redesign

The Learning Organization

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 109-120

  Fraser, Kym ^a   Novak, Joseph ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Communications; Empowerment; Learning; Work design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986052327     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696479810223383     Document Type: Article

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