Identified Employee Surveys: Potential Promise, Perils, and Professional Practice Guidelines

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 435-448

  Saari, Lise M ^a   Scherbaum, Charles A ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84867607399     PISSN: 17549426     EISSN: 17549434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9434.2011.01369.x     Document Type: Article

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