Employment equity policy frames in the literature: 'good practice' versus 'bad idea'

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1942-1962

  Verbeek, Stijn ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Business ethics; Diversity management; Employment equity; Ethnic discrimination; Good practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957810699     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.573972     Document Type: Article

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