Effects of employees' perceptions on the relationship between HR practices and firm performance for Korean firms

Personnel Review

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 573-594

  Choi, Jang Ho ^a   Lee, Khan Pyo ^a  

^a Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Employee perception; Employees behaviour; Financial performance; High performance work systems; Human resource management; Job satisfaction; Mediation; Moderation; Multi level analysis; Republic of Korea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881567207     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/PR-12-2011-0176     Document Type: Article

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