Creating and replicating HRM on greenfield sites: Rhetoric or reality?

employee relations

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 46-65

  Hallier, Jerry ^a   Leopold, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employers; Human resource management; Implementation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986133160     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459610129380     Document Type: Article

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