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Ethical dilemmas and the victim’s perspective: Broadening ethics in industrial-organizational psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2021

Meghan A. Thornton-Lugo  and
Marc Cubrich Open the ORCID record for Marc Cubrich [Opens in a new window]
Meghan A. Thornton-Lugo
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
Marc Cubrich*
Affiliation:
The University of Akron
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*Corresponding author. Email: mmc140@zips.uakron.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , pp. 345 - 349
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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