Developing a capacity for organizational resilience through strategic human resource management

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-255

  Lengnick Hall, Cynthia A ^a   Beck, Tammy E ^b   Lengnick Hall, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

HR policies; HR principles; Individual contributions; Organizational resilience; Strategic human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955998415     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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