Islamic challenges to HR in modern organizations

Personnel Review

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 692-711

  Ali, Abbas J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Employees; Ethics; Human resource management; Islam; Management techniques; Persian Gulf States

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957059976     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483481011075567     Document Type: Article

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