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Moving beyond compliance to conventional wisdom: How I-O professionals can promote an ethical organizational culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2023

William Thai*
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA
Jorge Lumbreras
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA
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*Corresponding author: Email: thaiw@spu.edu

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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