Explaining the human resource management preferences of employees: A study of Chinese workers

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 3245-3269

  Caia, Ziming ^a   Morris, Jonathan Llewelyn ^b   Chen, Jing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Chinese; Convergence; Divergence; HRM; HRM preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053280260     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.560863     Document Type: Article

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