Pervasiveness of dominant general factors in organizational measurement

Industrial and Organizational Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 409-427

  Ree, Malcolm James ^a   Carretta, Thomas R ^b   Teachout, Mark S ^c  

^a OUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominant general factors; General factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994571010     PISSN: 17549426     EISSN: 17549434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/iop.2015.16     Document Type: Article

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