Towards Critical Human Resource Management Education (CHRME): a sociological imagination approach

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 496-507

  Bratton, John ^a   Gold, Jeff ^b  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crisis; critical HRM; employment relationship; pedagogy; sociological imagination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930738173     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: 14698722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017014545266     Document Type: Article

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