The Social and Organizational Context of Personnel Selection

The Oxford Handbook of Personnel Assessment and Selection

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ployhart, Robert E ^a   Schneider, Benjamin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Organizational context; Selection context; Social context

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066587075     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199732579.013.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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