The effects of organizational learning climate, career-enhancing strategy, and work orientation on the protean career

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 387-405

  Park, Yongho ^a   Rothwell, William J ^b  

^a GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career enhancing strategy; Learning organization; Protean career; Subjective career success; Work orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867919917     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860903135771     Document Type: Article

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