The Normative Foundations of Unethical Supervision in Organizations

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-19

  Ünal, Ali F ^a,b   Warren, Danielle E ^a   Chen, Chao C ^a  

^a RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Unethical leadership; Unethical supervision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859563149     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-012-1300-z     Document Type: Article

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