The Impracticality of Recruitment Research

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 47-72

  Saks, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Impractical; Models; Organizations; Practice; Recruitment; Recruitment research; Research to practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046047420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164221.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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