What drives enterprise training? Evidence from Australia

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 251-272

  Smith, Andrew ^a   Hayton, Geoff ^b  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employee development; Human resource development; Human resource management; Training; Training and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037510127     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095851999340549     Document Type: Article

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