Employees: Capital or commodity?

Career Development International

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 324-330

  Byrne, Roger ^a  

^a Asia Pacific and Middle East Region ^*  (Singapore)

Author keywords

Careerdevelopment; Corporateculture; Intellectualcapital; Knowledge management; Loyalty; Self managed learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986180589     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005988     Document Type: Article

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