Mentoring and women's career advancement in greece

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 509-527

  Apospori, Eleni ^a   Nikandrou, Irene ^a   Panayotopoulou, Leda ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Career advancement; Greece; Mentoring; Organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 47349130689     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860601032627     Document Type: Article

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