Corporate human resources and "bottom line" financial performance

Personnel Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 290-305

  Clark, Ian ^a  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competitive priorities; Engineering; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033441799     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483489910273624     Document Type: Article

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