The employee as a punching bag: The effect of multiple sources of incivility on employee withdrawal behavior and sales performance

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 121-139

  Sliter, Michael ^a   Sliter, Katherine ^a   Jex, Steve ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Incivility; Lateness; Performance; Tardiness; Withdrawal; Workplace mistreatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84355162231     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.767     Document Type: Article

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