Improving labor productivity: Human resource management policies do matter

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 335-354

  Koch, Marianne J ^a   McGrath, Rita Gunther ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource; Labor productivity; Personnel; Strategic human resource management; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL METHOD; FIRM; HUMAN CAPITAL; LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STRATEGY;

PERSONNEL;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0030363553     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0266(199605)17:5<335::aid-smj814>3.0.co;2-r     Document Type: Article

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