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Assessing ideal personalities at work: Is it all just a little bit of history repeating?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2019

Christopher M. Castille*
Affiliation:
Nicholls State University
Ann-Marie R. Castille
Affiliation:
Nicholls State University
Rachel Williamson Smith
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: christopher.castille@nicholls.edu

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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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