Malaysian industrial relations at century's turn: Vision 2020 or a spectre of the past?

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1365-1382

  Todd, Patricia ^a   Peetz, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Industrial relations and development; Labour management relations in Malaysia; Malaysia; Malaysian human resource management; Malaysian industrial relations; Malaysian work organization; Malaysian workforce composition; Training in Malaysia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345861002     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190110085062     Document Type: Article

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