The impact of changes to the human resources function in Australia

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 501-514

  Fisher, Cathy ^a   Dowling, Peter J ^b   Garnham, Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Board of directors representation; Commitment to strategy; Employees

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345978771     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095851999340459     Document Type: Article

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