Comparing the efficacy of policy-capturing weights and direct estimates for predicting job choice

Organizational Research Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-314

  Slaughter, Jerel E ^a,d   Richard, Erin M ^b   Martin, James H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Job choice; Policy capturing; Recruitment; Research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745036517     PISSN: 10944281     EISSN: 15527425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1094428105279936     Document Type: Article

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