Measuring employee assets – The Nordic Employee IndexTM

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 537-550

  Eskildsen, Jacob K ^a   Westlund, Anders H ^b   Kristensen, Kai ^b  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Employees; Job satisfaction; Measurement; Scandinavia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986172471     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150410559216     Document Type: Article

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