Seeing stars: Human resources performance indicators in the National Health Service

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 634-647

  Givan, Rebecca Kolins ^a  

^a and History   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; Human resource management; Performance measurement (quality); United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 25444476974     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510623439     Document Type: Article

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