Explaining lower educated workers' training intentions

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 402-416

  Sanders, Jos ^a   Oomens, Shirley ^b   Blonk, Roland W B ^a,c   Hazelzet, Astrid ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Education; Employee attitudes; Employee participation; Individual behaviour; Non academic staff; The Netherlands; Workplace training

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961090419     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665621111154412     Document Type: Article

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