Workplace learning: A trade union failure to service needs

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-20

  Stroud, Dean ^a   Fairbrother, Peter ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditing; Competitive strategy; Issues; Value analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749009445     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620810843610     Document Type: Article

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