Federal Labor-Management Relations Reforms Under Bush: Enlightened Management or Quest for Control?

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-124

  Thompson, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

civil service reform; human resource management; labor management relations; public employee unions; public management

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249156331     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X06294365     Document Type: Article

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