Human resource management in the service sector

The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 509-523

  Gittell, Jody Hoffer ^a   Seidner, Rob ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 84949558312     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9780857021496.n30     Document Type: Chapter

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