Investigating the human resources context and content on TQM, business excellence and ISO 9001:2000

Measuring Business Excellence

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 21-29

  Vouzas, Fotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Business excellence; European Quality Award; Human resource management; ISO 9000 series

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548163585     PISSN: 13683047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13683040710820728     Document Type: Article

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