Conducting Meaningful Research in a Fast-Paced and Volatile World of Work: Challenges and Opportunities

International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2007

Volumn 22, Issue , 2008, Pages 265-290

  Ryan, Anne Marie ^a   Pulakos, Elaine D ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Personnel Decisions Research Institutes   (United States)

Author keywords

Meta analytic techniques; Organizational research; Psychological research; Statistical methods; Structural equation modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949224731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753378.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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