Employee learning in New Zealand small manufacturing firms

Employee Relations

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 311-325

  Coetzer, Alan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Manufacturing industries; New Zealand; Small enterprises; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746113790     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450610673385     Document Type: Article

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