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Spotlight on the Context: How a Stereotype Threat Framework Might Help Organizations to Attract and Retain Older Workers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Carol T. Kulik
Carol T. Kulik*
Affiliation:
University of South Australia
*
E-mail: carol.kulik@unisa.edu.au, Address: School of Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 456 - 461
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