Social partnership strategies in two health service trusts

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 648-664

  Mason, Bob ^a   Heaton, Norma ^a   Morgan, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health services; Human resource strategies; Industrial relations; Partnership

Indexed keywords

EID: 19644401189     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410561538     Document Type: Article

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