(Post)bureaucratic organizational practices and the production of racioethnic inequality at work

Journal of Management and Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-81

  Siebers, Hans ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bureaucracy; Discrimination; Diversity; Labour control; Labour market; Labour process; Racioethnic inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954261456     PISSN: 18333672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/jmo.837.15.1.62     Document Type: Article

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