The times they are a-changing: Who will stay and who will go in a downsizing organization?

Personnel Review

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 275-290

  Cross, Bernadette ^a   Travaglione, Anthony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Employees attitudes; Employees behaviour; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042470071     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480410528823     Document Type: Article

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