Assessing Workgroup Norms for Civility: The Development of the Civility Norms Questionnaire-Brief

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 407-420

  Walsh, Benjamin M ^a,b   Magley, Vicki J ^a   Reeves, David W ^a   Davies Schrils, Kimberly A ^a   Marmet, Matthew D ^a   Gallus, Jessica A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT SPRINGFIELD   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Scale development; Workplace civility; Workplace incivility; Workplace norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869087685     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-011-9251-4     Document Type: Article

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