Crew resource management: Improving team work in high reliability industries

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 68-78

  Flin, Rhona ^a   O'Connor, Paul ^a   Mearns, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Safety; Teams; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992974895     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590210433366     Document Type: Article

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