Distributing HRM responsibilities: A classification of organisations

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 618-636

  Valverde, Mireia ^a   Ryan, Gerard ^a   Soler, Ceferí ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Devolution; Human resource management; Outsourcing; Responsibilities; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749407995     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610702692     Document Type: Article

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