Predicting Sales Performance Criteria With Personality Measures: The Use of the General Factor of Personality, the Big Five and Narrow Traits

Human Performance

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 126-149

  Sitser, Thomas ^a   van der Linden, Dimitri ^a   Born, Marise Ph ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84876230875     PISSN: 08959285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08959285.2013.765877     Document Type: Article

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