In search of HRM: Beyond the rhetoric and reality distinction or the case of the dog that didn’t bark

Personnel Review

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 6-16

  Watson, Tony J ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 3843089335     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483489510091756     Document Type: Article

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