The thinking styles of human resource practitioners

The Learning Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 276-289

  Higgins, Paul ^a   Zhang, Lifang ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Thinking styles

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949170056     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470910960374     Document Type: Article

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