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7 - Third-Party Reactions to Workplace Aggression

from Part II - The Social Context of Workplace Aggression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

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