Investors in People and the Standardization of Professional Knowledge in Personnel Management

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-219

  Bell, Emma ^a   Taylor, Scott ^b   Thorpe, Richard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change management; Investors in people; Personnel management; Professionalization; Training and enterprise councils

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001099610     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601322003     Document Type: Article

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