Commitment, control, and the use of competency management

Personnel Review

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 609-628

  Heinsman, Hanneke ^a   De Hoogh, Annebel H B ^a   Koopman, Paul L ^a   Van Muijen, Jaap J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NYENRODE BUSINESS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competences; Employee attitudes; Employee behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949101361     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480810906865     Document Type: Article

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