Are humans resources?

Career Development International

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-279

  Inkson, Kerr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Careers; Human resource management; Metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 43749104012     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430810870511     Document Type: Article

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