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Scientific Principles Versus Practical Realities: Insights From Organizational Theory to Individual Psychological Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Ute-Christine Klehe
Ute-Christine Klehe*
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
*
E-mail: u.klehe@uva.nl, Address: Arbeids- & Organisatiepsychologie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Roetersstraat 15, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 311 - 316
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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Footnotes

Many (though not all) of the ideas voiced in this commentary are based on Klehe (2004), which in turn is largely based on Oliver (1991) and has found first empirical support by König, Klehe, Berchtold, and Kleinmann (2010).

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