Reforming further education: The changing labour process for college lecturers

Personnel Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-127

  Mather, Kim ^a   Worrall, Les ^a   Seifert, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Further education; Organizational change; Public sector reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846318905     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480710716740     Document Type: Article

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