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11 - Coping with Workplace Aggression

from Part III - The Prevention of Workplace Aggression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

Nathan A. Bowling
Affiliation:
Wright State University, Ohio
M. Sandy Hershcovis
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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