Human Resource Management practitioners’ responses to workplace bullying: Cycles of symbolic violence

Organization

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 368-389

  Harrington, Susan ^a   Warren, Samantha ^b   Rayner, Charlotte ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bourdieu; critical discourse analysis; HRM; human resource management; intervention; managerialism; managers; performance management; symbolic violence; workplace bullying

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927797660     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508413516175     Document Type: Article

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