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Making selection tests work better for disabled job applicants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2024

Dustin Maneethai Open the ORCID record for Dustin Maneethai [Opens in a new window]  and
Lars U. Johnson
Dustin Maneethai*
Affiliation:
University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Lars U. Johnson
Affiliation:
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
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Corresponding author: Dustin Maneethai; Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 292 - 295
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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