Decision aids for addressing the validity-adverse impact trade-off

Adverse Impact: Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 453-472

  Sackett, Paul R ^a   Corte, Wilfried De ^b   Lievens, Filip ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Industrial Psychology ^*  (United States)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 77954651752     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203848418     Document Type: Chapter

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