Relational demography and similarity-attraction in interview assessments and subsequent offer decisions - Are we missing something?

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 597-624

  Goldberg, Caren B ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applicant assessments; Demographic similarity; Recruiter assessments; Recruiter applicant similarity; Relational demography; Similarity attraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444499389     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601104267661     Document Type: Article

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