Employers’ discovery of training: selfdevelopment, employability and the rhetoric of partnership

Employee Relations

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 80-95

  Hallier, Jerry ^a   Butts, Stewart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job security; Management attitudes; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986173282     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425459910253000     Document Type: Article

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