Career-focused employee transfer processes

Career Development International

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 293-309

  Prince, J Bruce ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career development; Employee development; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844478749     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430510609136     Document Type: Article

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