Students' perceptions of questionable workplace behaviors: The effects of perceiver and actor attributes

Individual Differences Research

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 14-26

  Jones, Jason R ^a   Christopher, Andrew N ^b   Marek, Pam ^c   Reinhart, David F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Anderson University South Carolina   (United States)

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