Individualism/collectivism and attitudes towards human resource systems: A comparative study of American, Irish and Indian MBA students

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 852-869

  Ramamoorthy, Nagarajan ^a   Gupta, Amit ^b   Sardessai, Ron M ^a   Flood, Patrick C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Employee attitudes; Equality; Equity; Human resource management; Individualism; Reward systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 22744450492     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190500083459     Document Type: Article

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