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On the Relationship Between Job Performance and Ratings of Job Performance: What Do We Really Know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

David J. Woehr
David J. Woehr*
Affiliation:
The University of Tennessee
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E-mail: djw@utk.edu, Address: Department of Management, The University of Tennessee, 411 Stokely Management Center, Knoxville, TN 37796
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 161 - 166
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Department of Management, The University of Tennessee

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