Human resource management: The Achilles heel of school governance

Employee Relations

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 20-46

  Grieves, Jim ^a   Hanafin, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Teesside   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Management roles; Recruitment; Selection; Teachers

Indexed keywords

EID: 18844386534     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450510569292     Document Type: Article

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