"The smarts that counts": Psychologists' decision-making in personnel selection

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 117-124

  Zysberg, Leehu ^a   Nevo, Baruch ^b  

^a SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

decision making; I O psychology; management; personnel selection; regression models; skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544364179     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOBU.0000040275.16133.15     Document Type: Article

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