What Have I Done to Deserve This? Effects of Employee Personality and Emotion on Abusive Supervision

Journal of Business Ethics

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 461-474

  Henle, Christine A ^a   Gross, Michael A ^a  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Abusive supervision; Negative emotion; Personality; Victim precipitation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903557780     PISSN: 01674544     EISSN: 15730697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-013-1771-6     Document Type: Article

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