How cultural values affect the impact of abusive supervision on worker attitudes

Cross Cultural Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 464-484

  Kernan, Mary C ^a   Watson, Sharon ^a   Chen, Fang Fang ^b   Kim, Tai Gyu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Bullying; Cross cultural studies; Cultural values; Employees behaviour; South Korea; United States of America; Worker attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 80455155998     PISSN: 13527606     EISSN: 17586089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13527601111179528     Document Type: Article

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