Employee Popularity Mediates the Relationship Between Political Skill and Workplace Interpersonal Mistreatment

Journal of Management

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1760-1778

  Cullen, Kristin L ^a,b   Fan, Jinyan ^b   Liu, Cong ^c  

^a Center for Creative Leadership   (Singapore)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conflict; ostracism; political skill; popularity; social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907077551     PISSN: 01492063     EISSN: 15571211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0149206311435104     Document Type: Article

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