Great expectations: CEOs' perception of the performance gap of the HRM function in the Malaysian manufacturing sector

Personnel Review

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-80

  Othman, Rozhan ^a   Abdul Ghani, Rohayu ^a   Arshad, Rasidah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Malaysia; Manufacturing industry; Model; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842788697     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480110380145     Document Type: Article

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