Line manager involvement in learning and development: Small beer or big deal?

Employee Relations

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-293

  Gibb, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Knowledge management; Learning; Line management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986038251     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450310475865     Document Type: Article

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