High commitment management in the U.K.: Evidence from the workplace industrial relations survey, and employers' manpower and skills practices survey

Human Relations

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 485-515

  Wood, Stephen ^a   De Menezes, Lilian ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High commitment management; Human resources management and organizational performance; Latent variable analysis; Trade unionism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039938748     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001872679805100403     Document Type: Review

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