Cut scores and adverse impact

Adverse Impact: Implications for Organizational Staffing and High Stakes Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 289-322

  Kehoe, Jerard F ^a  

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EID: 84909590539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203848418     Document Type: Chapter

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