Critical assessment of the impact of HR strategies on employees’ performance

Cogent Business and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Anwaar, Sana ^a   Nadeem, Ali Bin ^a   Hassan, Misbah ^a  

^a Centre of Excellence in Sciences and Applied Technologies   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

employee performance; HR strategies; line manager

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044817196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23311975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2016.1245939     Document Type: Article

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