Selection for team membership: A contingency and multilevel perspective

Handbook of Employee Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 801-822

  Mohammed, Susan ^a   Cannon Bowers, Jan ^b   Foo, Su Chuen ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809808     Document Type: Chapter

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