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SUMMARY<br />

This exploratory study was one of the first applications of the GWB's.<br />

Certainly, the GWB's need refinement but, at this stage of development,, the<br />

results look promising. The results obtained in this study make sense<br />

intuitively in terrns of the GWB's performed the most and least across jobs,<br />

job dimensions, and clusters of related jobs.<br />

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