Winners and losers: Organizational impacts of a nurses pay agreement

Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 259-268

  North, Nicola ^a   Buchan, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Health management; Labour market; New Zealand; Nurses' pay; Nursing workforce

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT; TRADE UNION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COLLECTIVE BARGAINING; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 77649248733     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: 15527468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154409359329     Document Type: Article

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