The relationship between the work unit's conflict management styles and bullying at work: Moderation by conflict frequency

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 401-419

  Baillien, Elfi ^a   Notelaers, Guy ^b   de Witte, Hans ^a   Matthiesen, Stig Berge ^b  

^a Department of Psychology   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bullying at work; Conflict management styles; Dual Concern Theory; Mobbing; Multigroup analyses

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960863603     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X10377929     Document Type: Article

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