Developing a framework to measure organizational and employee skills development in a professional engineering design consultancy

Construction Innovation

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 53-66

  Matsumoto, Isao ^a   Stapleton, John ^b   Glass, Jacqueline ^a   Thorpe, Tony ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Whitby Bird   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee skills; Intellectual assets; Organizational management; Professional development; Skill measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992963249     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714170510815177     Document Type: Article

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