Withholding effort at work: Understanding and preventing shirking, job neglect, social loafing, and free riding

Managing Organizational Deviance

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 113-130

  Bennett, Nathan ^a   Naumann, Stefanie E ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

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EID: 84949562960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781452231105.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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