Using competency-based assessment centres to select judges - Implications for equality and diversity

Human Resource Management Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-318

  Kirton, Gill ^a   Healy, Geraldine ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67849121880     PISSN: 09545395     EISSN: 09545395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-8583.2009.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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