Why is Organizational Change Related to Workplace Bullying? Role Conflict and Job Insecurity as Mediators

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 348-371

  Baillien, Elfi ^a   De Witte, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

human resource management; merger; private sector; quality of work life; working conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954278273     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09336557     Document Type: Article

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