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The best and worst of teams: self-directed work teams as an information systems development workforce strategy

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Pages: 59 - 67

Year of Publication: 1998

ISBN:0-89791-959-9

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Brian D. Janz

Fogelman College of Business and Economics, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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