'Best practice' human resource management: Perfect opportunity or dangerous illusion?

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1104-1124

  Marchington, Mick ^a   Grugulis, Irena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Best practice; Human resource management; Performance; Unitarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344393836     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190050177184     Document Type: Article

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