Effects of socially responsible human resource management on employee organizational commitment

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3020-3035

  Shen, Jie ^a   Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China; Corporate social responsibility; HRM; Organizational commitment; Socially responsible HRM

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053096611     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.599951     Document Type: Article

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