Talent management and building high performance organisations

Industrial and Commercial Training

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 429-436

  Coulson Thomas, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Company performance; Competitive strategy; High performance organizations; More affordable approaches; Performance support; Performance transformation; Talent management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866854184     PISSN: 00197858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00197851211268027     Document Type: Article

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