Challenges and Recommendations in the Measurement of Workplace Incivility

Insidious Workplace Behavior

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 239-272

  Jex, Steve M ^a   Geimer, Jennifer L Burnfield ^a   Clark, Olga ^b   Guidroz, Ashley M ^a   Yugo, Jennifer E ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^c OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203849439     Document Type: Chapter

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