The impact of gender and organizational status on workplace anger expression

Management Communication Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 297-315

  Domagalski, Theresa A ^a   Steelman, Lisa A ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Center for Professional Service

Author keywords

Anger expression; Emotion norms; Gender; Organizational status

Indexed keywords

EID: 48149085131     PISSN: 08933189     EISSN: 15526798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0893318906295681     Document Type: Article

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