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Article: The ethical imperative to provide recruits realistic job previews.
- Article from:
- Journal of Managerial Issues
- Article date:
- December 22, 1997
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Substantial research examining the efficacy of Realistic Job Previews (RJPs) has been conducted in the past decade (Wanous, 1989). Nearly all of this research has focused on the effects of RJPs on one or more desirable organizational outcomes, such as some measure of job acceptance, job persistence, or job satisfaction. Concern has been expressed that the reported results of RJP interventions have been, at best, equivocal (Milkovich and Boudreau, 1994). Nearly as many RJP studies have been conducted that found no relationship between realistic job information and reduced turnover rates as the number of studies which found a significant reduction (e. g., Premack and ...