HR managers: Guardians of employee wellbeing?

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Renwick, Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employees; Human resource management; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038666267     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310467651     Document Type: Article

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