Valuing the investment in organizational training

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 372-379

  Murray, L W ^a   Efendioglu, Alev M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Return on investment; Training; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 35148837231     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197850710829085     Document Type: Article

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