An empirical study on older employees training on ICT

Proceedings of the European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems: Global Information Systems Challenges in Management, EMCIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Themistocleous, Marinos ^a,b   Koumaditis, Konstantinos ^a   Mantzana, Vasiliki ^a   Morabito, Vincenzo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adult learning; E learning; ICT training; Older employees

Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNING; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPLOYEES TRAINING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MODERN TECHNOLOGIES; RAPID CHANGES; TRAINING PROCESS;

E-LEARNING; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

PERSONNEL TRAINING;

EID: 84857574294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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