A workforce or workplace crisis?- Applying an organizational perspective to the study of human services employment

Administration in Social Work

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 41-61

  Haley Lock, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Human service organizations; Internal labor markets; Recruitment; Retention; Turnover

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548474091     PISSN: 03643107     EISSN: 15444376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J147v31n03_04     Document Type: Article

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