An exploration of the relationships between the adoption of managerial competencies, organisational characteristics, human resource sophistication and performance in Irish organisations

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 24, Issue , 2000, Pages 128-136

  Heffernan, Margaret M ^a   Flood, Patrick C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Competences; Human resource management; Ireland; Organisational performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986132968     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090590010321098     Document Type: Article

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