Realistic Job Previews

Handbook of Improving Performance in the Workplace

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 203-220

  Breaugh, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectations and feedback and realistic job previews (RJP); Realistic job preview procedure for managers, job incumbents and recruits; RJPs and "met expectations" hypothesis; Simplified model of RJP process; Theoretical rationale for RJP effectiveness accuracy of applicants' job and organizational expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889345984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470592663.ch27     Document Type: Chapter

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