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Can the Ideals of Employment Equity Legislation Be Achieved by Means of Psychometric Alchemy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Callie Theron
Callie Theron*
Affiliation:
University of Stellenbosch
*
E-mail: ccth@sun.ac.za, Address: Department of Industrial Psychology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2013 , pp. 414 - 418
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2013

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