"Real" high-potential careers: An empirical study into the perspectives of organisations and high potentials

Personnel Review

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-108

  Dries, Nicky ^a   Pepermans, Roland ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Career management; Careers; High flyers

Indexed keywords

EID: 36949037309     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480810839987     Document Type: Article

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