Human resource management practice and institutional constraints the case of Mozambique

Employee Relations

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 369-385

  Webster, Edward ^a   Wood, Geoffrey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Management effectiveness; Mozambique

Indexed keywords

EID: 22544440871     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450510605705     Document Type: Article

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