Personality-based job analysis and the self-serving bias

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 275-290

  Cucina, Jeffrey M ^a   Vasilopoulos, Nicholas L ^a   Sehgal, Kashi ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Job analysis; Personality; Personality based job analysis; Self serving bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844593272     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-005-8264-2     Document Type: Article

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