Morality vs. Mandate: Affirmative action in employment

Public Personnel Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 577-594

  Soni, Vidu ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1177/009102609902800407     Document Type: Article

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