Diversity management in India: A study of organizations in different ownership forms and industrial sectors

Human Resource Management

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 477-500

  Cooke, Fang Lee ^a   Saini, Debi S ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Diversity; Equal opportunity; Inclusiveness; India; MNC; Strategic HRM

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954637397     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20360     Document Type: Article

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