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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  and
Jorge Lumbreras
William Thai*
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA
Jorge Lumbreras
Affiliation:
Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, USA
*
*Corresponding author: Email: [email protected]
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2023 , pp. 170 - 173
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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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