The organizational implications of human resources managers' perception of teleworking

Personnel Review

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Pérez, Manuela Pérez ^a   Sánchez, Angel Martínez ^a   De Luis Carnicer, María Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Change management; Human resource management; Teleworking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242370114     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480310498693     Document Type: Article

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