A closer look at attention to detail

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 87-92

  Cappel, James J ^a   Prybutok, Victor R ^b   Varghese, Benny ^a,c  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION TO DETAIL (ATD); CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY; INTERPERSONAL SKILLS; UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONNEL; SURVEYS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 21644440282     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1070838.1070842     Document Type: Review

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