Managers’ personal values as predictors of importance attached to training and development: A cross-country exploratory study

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 335-350

  McGuire, David ^a   Garavan, Thomas N ^b   O’Donnell, David ^c   Saha, Sudhir K ^d   Cseh, Maria ^e  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^c Intellectual Capital Research Institute of Ireland   (Ireland)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Line managers; Personal values; Training and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006359376     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860802261520     Document Type: Article

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