Conditions of Work Environments in Fostering Transfer of Training

Emerging Perspectives of Workplace Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-231

  Festner, Dagmar ^a   Gruber, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 85147052209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/9789087906450_015     Document Type: Chapter

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