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Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research Annual Conference archive
Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research table of contents

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Pages: 31 - 35

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-904-1

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Andre P. Calitz	Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Port Elizabeth, P.O. Box 1600, Port Elizabeth, 6000, South Aftica
Mark B. Watson	Department of Psychology, University of Port Elizabeth, P.O. Box 1600, Port Elizabeth, 6000, South Aftica
Gideon de V de Kock	Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Port Elizabeth, P.O. Box 1600, Port Elizabeth, 6000, South Aftica

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SIGCPR: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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