Transforming the rhetoric of organisational learning to the reality of the learning organisation

The Learning Organization

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 24-35

  Reynolds, Rysia ^a   Ablett, Anne ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences; Human resource development; Human resource management; Learning organizations; Management Charter Initiative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146079     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696479810200838     Document Type: Article

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