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The Role of Perceptions Versus Reality in Managers’ Choice of Selection Decision Aids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Jean M. Phillips*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
Stanley M. Gully
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
*
E-mail: jeanp@rci.rutgers.edu, Address: Department of Human Resource Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University, 212 Janice H. Leven Building, 94 Rockafeller Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8054

Abstract

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Type
Commentaries
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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Footnotes

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Department of Human Resource Management, Rutgers University

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