Revisiting g: Intelligence, adverse impact, and personnel selection

Adverse Impact: Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-134

  Goldstein, Harold W ^a   Scherbaum, Charles A ^a   Yusko, Kenneth P ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203848418     Document Type: Chapter

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