The New Age Employee: An Exploration of Changing Employee-Organization Relations

Public Personnel Management

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 187-200

  Mir, Ali ^b   Mir, Raza ^a   Mosca, Joseph B ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035995646     PISSN: 00910260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009102600203100205     Document Type: Article

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