Neither poison nor panacea: Shopfloor responses to TQM

Employee Relations

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 121-141

  Glover, Linda ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Quality management; Shopfloor; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986065024     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450010320779     Document Type: Article

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