Multi-Ethnic Workforce and Business Performance: Review and Synthesis of the Empirical Literature

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 92-137

  Shoobridge, Gonzalo E ^a  

^a PRIAE Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; ethnic minority; human resources; inclusion; international business; performance; SME; workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992897757     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484305285459     Document Type: Review

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