A High Performance Work Practices Taxonomy: Integrating the Literature and Directing Future Research

Journal of Management

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1184-1220

  Posthuma, Richard A ^a   Campion, Michael C ^b   Masimova, Malika ^c   Campion, Michael A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

high performance work practices; strategic HRM

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878417709     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206313478184     Document Type: Article

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