Rafting an HR strategy to meet the need for IT workers

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 58-64

  Agarwal, Ritu ^a   Ferratt, Thomas W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

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EID: 0042191975     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/379300.379314     Document Type: Article

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