Do gender, position, and organization shape human resource flexibility?

Organisational Flexibility and Competitiveness

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 123-134

  Bamel, Umesh Kumar ^a   Rangnekar, Santosh ^b   Rastogi, Renu ^b  

^a NMIMS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Human resource flexibility; Indian organizations; Junior; Male and female managers; Middle and senior managers; Private and public organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84956519909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1668-1_9     Document Type: Chapter

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