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Abusive supervision in organizations: Power, dependency and employee voice in labour relations

Ch. 7. P. 122–145.
Evgeniya Balabanova
Language: English
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Keywords: властные отношения в организацииemployee voice"голос" работникаabusive supervision«враждебное» поведение руководителяabuse of powerEmployee dependencyзависимость работникаpower in organizationambivalence of powerамбивалентность власти
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From industrial to postindustrial work: core determinants and contradictions in work behavior of Russian employees (2018)

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The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy: Cases from Russia and beyond
The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy: Cases from Russia and beyond
L.: UCL Press, 2022.
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