The human resources development through mentoring: The Spanish case;El desarrollo de los recursos humanos a través del mentoring: El caso español

Intangible Capital

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-91

  Utrilla, Pedro Núñez Cacho ^a   Torraleja, Félix Ángel Grande ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Career development; Human resources; Mentoring; Productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866772905     PISSN: 16979818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3926/ic.292     Document Type: Article

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