Improving workplace performance: historical and theoretical contexts.
The current emphasis on the “high-performance” workplace may be reviving work practices that failed to flourish in the past. Today's high-performance workplace emphasizes the role of employee participation and decision making. Similar practices were experimented with in the past and were less than...
| Publicado en: | Monthly Labor Review Vol. 118; pp. 18 - 29 |
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US Department of Labor
May 1995
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