Making Nice or Faking Nice? Exploring Supervisors' Two-Faced Response to their Past Abusive Behavior
“It behooves organizations that want to develop highly authentic supervisors or organizational climates to seek to hire supervisors that are lower (or at least not higher) on symbolized moral identity.”
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Engineering Team Management › Politics: ““It behooves organizations that want to develop highly authentic supervisors or organizational climates to seek to hire supervisors that are lower (or at least not higher) on symbolized moral identity.””