Old dogs, new tricks: training matureaged manufacturing workers

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 277-291

  Smith, Erica ^a   Smith, Andrew ^a   Selby Smith, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Manufacturing industries; Older workers; Training; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954241729     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665621011053190     Document Type: Article

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