The effects of customized communication skills training on undergraduate information systems majors

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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

San Francisco, California, United States

Pages: 49 - 61

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-904-1

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Jack D. Becker	University of North Texas
Robert G. Insley	University of North Texas
Megan L. Endres	University of North Texas

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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