The high-performance work system: is it worth using?

Team Performance Management: An International Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2004, Pages 60-64

  Aghazadeh, Seyed Mahmoud ^a   Seyedian, Mojtaba ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees productivity; Labour efficiency; Performance management; Quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992978615     PISSN: 13527592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527590410545054     Document Type: Article

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