All in this together? HRM and the individualisation of the academic worker

Higher Education Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 397-419

  Waring, Matthew ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Higher Education (HE); Human Resource Management (HRM); individualisation; managerialism; neoliberalism; performance management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882260135     PISSN: 09528733     EISSN: 17403863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hep.2013.7     Document Type: Article

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