Assessment Centers: Recent Developments in Practice and Research

The Blackwell Handbook of Personnel Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 243-264

  Lievens, Filip ^a   Thornton, George C ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Center practice; Center research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046052089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781405164221.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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