Decision Making in Selection

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 265-290

  Born, Marise Ph ^a   Scholarios, Dora ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multilevel model; Stages of decision making; Types of decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046051411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164221.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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