Improving employeremployee relationships: a biblical and Talmudic perspective on human resource management

Management Decision

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 955-961

  Cohn, Gordon ^a   Friedman, Hershey H ^b  

^a TOURO COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Capitalism; Employee relations; Human resource management; Religion; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144759     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740210452827     Document Type: Article

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