Strategic human resource management and the decline of employee focus

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 209-219

  Van Buren, Harry J ^a   Greenwood, Michelle ^b   Sheehan, Cathy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethics; HRM profession; HRM role; Responsibility; Unitarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955993060     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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