Employees' and managers' accounts of interactive workplace learning: A grounded theory of “complex integrative learning”

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 409-427

  Armson, Genevieve ^a   Whiteley, Alma ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employees; Learning methods; Managers; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956503406     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665621011071091     Document Type: Article

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