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Performance Management
Dr. Herman Aguinis

PE-A1-engb 1/2011 (1033)

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Dr. Herman Aguinis (http://www.cudenver.edu/~haguinis) Dr. Aguinis is the Mehalchin Term Professor of Management in the Business School at the University of Colorado at Denver, USA. He has been a visiting scholar at universities in the People’s Republic of China (Beijing and

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