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If we build it, will they come? Lack of incentives as barriers to implementing effective sexual harassment training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2019

Isabel Bilotta ,
Meghan K. Davenport ,
Felix Y. Wu  and
Margaret E. Beier
Isabel Bilotta
Affiliation:
Rice University
Meghan K. Davenport
Affiliation:
Rice University
Felix Y. Wu
Affiliation:
Rice University
Margaret E. Beier*
Affiliation:
Rice University
*
*Corresponding author. Email: mkd1@rice.edu
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 20 - 24
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© Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2019 

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Authors Isabel Bilotta and Meghan Davenport contributed equally, and authorship was determined alphabetically.

Isabel Bilotta, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University; Meghan Davenport, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University; Felix Wu, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University; and Margaret Beier, Department of Psychological Sciences, Rice University.

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