Forecasting future competency requirements: A three-phase methodology

Personnel Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-90

  Robinson, Mark A ^a   Sparrow, Paul R ^b   Clegg, Chris ^a   Birdi, Kamal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Forecasting; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846295539     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480710716722     Document Type: Article

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