Translating national policy changes into local HRM practices

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 544-559

  van Gestel, Nicolette ^a   Nyberg, Daniel ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Government policy; Human resource management; Organizational change; Organizational theory; Sick leave

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349621796     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910978045     Document Type: Article

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