Barriers to the development of self-organizing teams

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 134-150

  Balkema, Ageeth ^a   Molleman, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job enrichment; Self managing teams; Team building

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146040     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02683949910255205     Document Type: Article

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