"The worse you behave, the more you seem, to be rewarded": Bullying in nursing as organizational corruption

Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-229

  Hutchinson, Marie ^a   Vickers, Margaret H ^a   Wilkes, Lesley ^a   Jackson, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bullying; Corruption; Mobbing; Organizational behavior; Workplace violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349139283     PISSN: 08927545     EISSN: 15733378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10672-009-9100-z     Document Type: Article

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