HR manager leadership in quality improvement in a college environment

Quality Assurance in Education

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 317-327

  Sharabi, Moshe ^a  

^a Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (Israel)

Author keywords

Customer services quality; Higher education; Human resource management; Israel; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957901609     PISSN: 09684883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09684881011079161     Document Type: Article

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