What is the Australian model for managing cultural diversity?

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 96-115

  Syed, Jawad ^a   Kramar, Robin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Equal opportunities; Migrant workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350283471     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011007887     Document Type: Article

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