Using personality traits to predict police officer performance

Policing

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 129-147

  Sanders, Beth A ^a  

^a Thomas More College Crestview Hills   (United States)

Author keywords

Human resource management; Performance management; Personality; Police; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549103158     PISSN: 1363951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13639510810852611     Document Type: Article

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