Mentoring programmes: A study of the Spanish software industry

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-302

  Casado Lumbreras, Cristina ^a   Colomo Palacios, Ricardo ^b   Gómez Berbis, Juan Miguel ^b   Garcia Crespo, Angel ^b  

^a Sunion (Grupo Gesfor)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human capital development; IT organisations; Mentoring; People capability maturity model; People CMM

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649107357     PISSN: 14794853     EISSN: 14794861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2009.025046     Document Type: Article

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