The Journal of Personnel Psychology is a peer-reviewed

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 academic journal

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 published four times per year by Hogrefe Publishing. It is the continuation of the Zeitschrift für Personalpsychologie , originally published in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 from the beginning of 2002 until the end of 2009. The journal publishes "empirical and theoretical contributions as well as reviews to basic and applied research in personnel psychology and related methodology." Articles cover all fields in personnel psychology

Personnel psychology

PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGYA. Course DescriptionPersonnel Psychology, sometimes called Industrial Psychology, is a subfield of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. It is the field of study that concentrates on the selection and evaluation of employees. This area of psychology deals with job analysis...

, including "selection, performance measurement, motivation, leadership, organizational commitment, personnel development and training, new test developments, and job analysis."

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