Working outside the comfort of competence in a corrections centre: Toward collective competence

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 493-509

  Hager, Paul ^a   Johnsson, Mary C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competence; Multi disciplinary teams; Organizational change; Relationality; Workplace learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961090179     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860903274513     Document Type: Article

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