Workplace Incivility Scale.
WIS
- What it measures
- Experienced workplace incivility - frequency of rude, condescending, disrespectful low-intensity mistreatment at work
- Length and format
- 7 (original). 5-pt frequency (never ... most of the time) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Adapted internationally - Spanish, Turkish, Chinese, Portuguese and others (approx 15+ langs)
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Cortina LM, Magley VJ, Williams JH, Langhout RD. Incivility in the workplace: incidence and impact. J Occup Health Psychol. 2001;6(1):64-80.
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