The impact of HRM practices on organisational performance in the Indian hotel industry

Employee Relations

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 576-594

  Chand, Mohinder ^a   Katou, Anastasia A ^b  

^a KURUKSHETRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hotel and catering industry; Human resource management; India; Organizational performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 35548978609     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450710826096     Document Type: Article

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