Employee competency maturity model and its application in global software o

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 170-180

  El Baz, Hazim ^a   Zualkernan, Imran A ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Competency; Employee competency maturity model; Global software; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; OUTSOURCING; PERSONNEL;

COMPETENCY; COMPLEX PROCESSES; ITS APPLICATIONS; MATURITY LEVELS; MATURITY MODEL; PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS; SOFTWARE OUTSOURCING; STRATEGIC OUTSOURCING;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 79952926477     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2011.039138     Document Type: Article

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