Training Needs Assessment: Aligning Learning and Capability With Performance Requirements and Organizational Objectives

The Handbook of Work Analysis: Methods, Systems, Applications and Science of Work Measurement in Organizations

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 437-462

  Surface, Eric A ^a  

^a SWA Consulting Inc   (United States)

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EID: 85139291981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203136324-36     Document Type: Chapter

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