The models exploring the "black box" between HRM and organizational performance;"Juodosios dėžės" modeliai žmogiškųjų išteklių valdymo ir organizacijos veiklos rezultatų sąsajoje

Engineering Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 426-434

  Savaneviciene, Asta ^a   Stankeviciute, Zivile ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Black Box; HRM Performance Link; Human Resource Management; Human Resource Practices; Organizational Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449305402     PISSN: 13922785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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