Personality and intelligence in business people: A study of two personality and two intelligence measures

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-109

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Dissou, Georgia ^a   Sloan, Peter ^b   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Kaisen Consulting Limited   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Job performance; Personality; Personnel selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548147724     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-007-9051-z     Document Type: Article

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