Managerial recruitment: The influence of personality and ideal candidate characteristics

Journal of Management Development

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 631-648

  Johnson, Alonzo ^a   Winter, Paul A ^a   Reio Jr , Thomas G ^b   Thompson, Henry L ^c   Petrosko, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c High Performing Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Job applications; Managers; Personality; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 46149127561     PISSN: 02621711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02621710810877866     Document Type: Article

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