HRM practice and employee attitudes: Different measures - Different results

Personnel Review

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 534-549

  Edgar, Fiona ^a   Geare, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Employee attitudes; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247155521     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480510612503     Document Type: Article

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