New employee development: A review and reconceptualization

Human Resource Development Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 233-252

  Holton, Elwood F ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040077942     PISSN: 10448004     EISSN: 15321096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.3920070305     Document Type: Article

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