Human resource management practices and workers' job satisfaction

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 651-667

  Petrescu, Alina Ileana ^a   Simmons, Rob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Human resource strategies; Job satisfaction; Pay policies; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949128010     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720810908947     Document Type: Article

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