HRM practices of canadian and US manufacturing firms: An empirical investigation

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 208-212

  Deshpande, Satish P ^a   Golhar, Damodar Y ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada; Employment practices; Human resource management; Usa

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); PERSONNEL SELECTION; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (HRM); MANUFACTURING FIRMS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0031124829     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095372897235253     Document Type: Article

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