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19 - Implications of Positive Organizational Behavior and Psychological Capital for Learning and Training Effectiveness

from Part IV - Special Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2017

By
Alan M. Saks  and
Jamie A. Gruman
Edited by
Kenneth G. Brown
Kenneth G. Brown
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University of Iowa
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The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Training and Employee Development , pp. 441 - 470
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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