Organisational responses to workplace harassment: An exploratory study

Personnel Review

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-44

  Salin, Denise ^a  

^a HANKEN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bullying; Discipline; Finland; Gender; Harassment; Human resource management

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649177916     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480910920697     Document Type: Article

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