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Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: What are practitioners to do?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

Gerald V. Barrett*
Affiliation:
Barrett and Associates Inc, Silver Lake, OH, USA
Dennis Doverspike
Affiliation:
Barrett and Associates Inc, Silver Lake, OH, USA
*
Corresponding author: Gerald V. Barrett; Email: gbarrett@barrett-associates.com

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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