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Improving Assessment Centers by the Trimodal Concept of Personnel Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Heinz Schuler*
Affiliation:
University of Hohenheim
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E-mail: schuler@uni-hohenheim.de, Address: Department of Psychology (540F), University of Hohenheim, D-70593 Stuttgart, Germany

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Footnotes

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Heinz Schuler, Department of Psychology (540F), University of Hohenheim

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