Are national levels of employee harassment cultural covariations of climato-economic conditions?

Work and Stress

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-122

  van de Vliert, Evert ^a,b   Einarsen, Ståle ^b   Nielsen, Morten Birkeland ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

bullying; climate; climato economic; cross national; employee harassment; national culture; organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874538106     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678373.2013.760901     Document Type: Article

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