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When you learn, you grow: Concretizing person-centricity in workplace learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2025

Joanna Kuczynska*
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Annemarie Künn-Nelen
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market, School of Business and Economics, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands IZA-Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany
Bram P. I. Fleuren
Affiliation:
Work and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
*
Corresponding author: Joanna Kuczynska; Email: [email protected]

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