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General and clinical personality assessment in workplace settings: Lines in the sand or regions on the beach?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2019

John J. Donahue
Affiliation:
University of Baltimore
Rebecca J. Thompson*
Affiliation:
Gettysburg College
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]

Abstract

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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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Footnotes

Order of authorship is alphabetical. Authors contributed equally.

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