Supporting Employee Participation: Attitudes and Perceptions in Trainees, Employees and Teams

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 53-82

  Langan Fox, Janice ^a   Code, Sharon ^a   Gray, Rachel ^a   Langfield Smith, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

employee motivation; employee participation; individual differences in participation; modelling employee participation; team participation; training employee participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728968     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430202005001807     Document Type: Article

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