Valuing workforce cross-training flexibility

Workforce Cross Training

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 131-151

  Qin, Ruwen ^a   Nembhard, David A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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