People management as indicator of business excellence: The Polish and Danish perspectives

TQM Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 386-398

  Haffer, Rafal ^a   Kristensen, Kai ^b  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Business excellence; Denmark; Human resource management; Poland; Self assessment

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES; BUSINESS EXCELLENCE; DENMARK; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EUROPEAN UNION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; KEY INDICATOR; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES; PEOPLE MANAGEMENT; POLAND; SELF ASSESSMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS;

BENCHMARKING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77953562038     PISSN: 17542731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17542731011053316     Document Type: Article

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