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*Corresponding Author: Ghulam Nabi, Department of Business Administration, University of Management Sciences and Information Technology Kotli, Pakistan. Email : ghulam@mail.ustc.edu.cn
Nabi, G., Yuanhua, Z., Zaheer, A. N., Rehman, A., & Nisar, S. K. (2016). What Matters in the Right Selection of Provincial Government Employees: An Analytical Study based on Employees Perception. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 6(6), 311-328.
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