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Making Assessment Centers Work the Way They Are Supposed To

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Ann Howard
Ann Howard*
Affiliation:
Development Dimensions International
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E-mail: [email protected], Address: Development Dimensions International, 1225 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017-2838
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 98 - 104
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2008 

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