Screening and selecting out violent employees

Handbook of Workplace Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 549-578

  Day, Aria L ^a   Catano, Victor M ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412976947.n24     Document Type: Chapter

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