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From Elusive to Obvious: Improving Performance Management Through Specificity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Katherine A. Frear*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Samantha C. Paustian-Underdahl
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
*
E-mail: kcallas@uncc.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Colvard South 4018, 9201 University City Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28223
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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