Aging workforce management in the automobile industry: Defining the concept and its constituting elements;Aging Workforce Management in der Automobilindustrie. Definition und konstituierende Elemente

Zeitschrift fur Personalforschung

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-27

  Streb, Christoph ^a   Voelpel, Sven ^b   Leibold, Marius ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aging workforce management; Automobile industry; Grounded theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 76949095095     PISSN: 01796437     EISSN: 18620000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/239700220902300102     Document Type: Article

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