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A Pragmatic View of Assessment Center Exercises and Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Brian S. Connelly*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Deniz S. Ones
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
Anuradha Ramesh
Affiliation:
Personnel Decisions International
Maynard Goff
Affiliation:
Personnel Decisions International
*
E-mail: conne122@umn.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 E. River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Abstract

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Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Footnotes

*

contributed equally to this manuscript

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