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Revisiting predictor–criterion construct congruence: Implications for designing personnel selection systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2023

Leaetta M. Hough Open the ORCID record for Leaetta M. Hough [Opens in a new window]  and
Frederick L. Oswald
Leaetta M. Hough*
Affiliation:
The Dunnette Group Ltd., St. Paul, MN, USA
Frederick L. Oswald
Affiliation:
Rice University, Department of Psychological Sciences, Houston, TX, USA
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Corresponding author: Leaetta Hough; Email: [email protected]
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Keywords

Personnel selectionSynthetic validityConstruct congruence
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 307 - 312
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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Revised and submitted April 10, 2023, to Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives in Science and Practice as a commentary to focal article entitled “Revisiting the Design of Selection Systems in Light of New Findings Regarding the Validity of Widely Used Predictors” by Sackett, Zhang, Berry, and Lievens.

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