Do applicants fake? An examination of the frequency of applicant faking behavior

Personnel Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 341-355

  Griffith, Richard L ^a   Yoshita, Yukiko ^a   Chmielowski, Tom ^b  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BNSF Railway   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Job applications; Personality tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047253801     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480710731310     Document Type: Article

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