Best practice for grooming critical mid-level roles

Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference: The Global Information Technology Workforce, SIGMIS-CPR 2007

Volumn 2007, Issue , 2007, Pages 15-19

  Gallagher, Kevin P ^a   Kaiser, Kate ^b   Frampton, Keith ^c   Gallagher, Vickie Coleman ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Marlo Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Careers; Roles; Workforce

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL SELECTION; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS; IT WORKFORCE; PROJECT MANAGERS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34248174767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1235000.1235004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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