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Getting a Grip on Why Incivility Happens Within the Workplace: A Commentary Essay

Michael Leiter: Analyzing and Theorizing the Dynamics of the Workplace Incivility Crisis. SpringerBriefs in Psychology, New York, 2013 (88 pp). ISBN 978-94-007-5571-0 (eBook)

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Kent, S., Muurlink, O. Getting a Grip on Why Incivility Happens Within the Workplace: A Commentary Essay. Soc Just Res 27, 137–148 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-014-0207-5

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