Best practices of ICT workforce management – a comparable research initiative in Finland

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 333-341

  Holm, Johanna ^a   Lähteenmäki, Satu ^a   Salmela, Hannu ^a   Suomi, Reima ^a   Suominen, Arto ^a   Viljanen, Maarit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Communications; Finland; Human resource management; Information technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986078528     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590210432688     Document Type: Article

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