National Human Resource Development in Transitioning Societies in the Developing World: The People's Republic of China

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 28-45

  Ke, Jie ^a   Chermack, Thomas J ^b   Lee, yi Hsuan ^a   Lin, Jie ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; developing world; human resource development (HRD); national human resource development (NHRD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990317174     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422305283056     Document Type: Article

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