Career Development: Load-Bearing Wall or Window Dressing? Exploring Definitions, Theories, and Prospects for HRD-Related Theory Building

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 442-477

  Egan, Toby Marshall ^a   Upton, Matthew G ^a   Lynham, Susan A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

career development; human resource development; training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992769406     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484306294155     Document Type: Article

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