Helping and harming others in the workplace: The roles of personal values and abusive supervision

Human Relations

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1051-1078

  Shao, Ping ^a   Resick, Christian J ^b   Hargis, Michael B ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

abusive supervision; deviance; OCB; psychological collectivism; social dominance; values

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960703941     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726711399940     Document Type: Article

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