Aligning employees through "line of sight"

Business Horizons

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 499-509

  Boswell, Wendy R ^a   Bingham, John B ^b   Colvin, Alexander J S ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee alignment; Human capital; Line of sight (LOS); Strategic goals; Strategic human resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749158295     PISSN: 00076813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bushor.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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