Predicting adverse impact and mean criterion performance in multistage selection

Journal of Applied Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 523-537

  De Corte, Wilfried ^a   Lievens, Filip ^a   Sackett, Paul R ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse impact; Estimation procedure; Personnel selection; Quality selected workforce

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; MANPOWER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONNEL SELECTION;

EID: 33745324469     PISSN: 00219010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-9010.91.3.523     Document Type: Article

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