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The Uniform Guidelines and Personnel Selection: Identify and Fix the Right Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Richard F. Tonowski*
Affiliation:
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and University of Maryland University College
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 131 M Street NW, Room 5NW20S, Washington, DC 20507-0001

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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Footnotes

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of any agency of the U.S. government.

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