Increasing employees’ creativity by training their managers

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 63-68

  Williams, Scott ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; Employee involvement; Job design; Managers; Problem solving; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032070829     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197850110385642     Document Type: Article

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