Necessary evils, (in)justice, and rapport management

Journal of Business Communication

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-185

  Campbell, Kim Sydow ^a,c   White, Charles D ^a   Durant, Rita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger; Linguistic politeness; LMX; Organizational justice; Sociolinguistics; Superior subordinate communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047243184     PISSN: 00219436     EISSN: 15524582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021943606297904     Document Type: Review

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